Operating IRC

As we are managing an IRC channel, here is some background, including a few operator commands: Commands to the server start with /.

Getting Operator Privileges

If you become a core developer of GnuCash, Operator Privilegs will be granted to you. There a two alternative ways to activate them (Gncbot is the preferred method):

From Gncbot

You need to register your nick[s] and a password once with gncbot. The easiest way to do that is to:

/msg gncbot register <name> <password>

Once you are registered, the channel owner needs to add you to the list of channel operators so that gncbot knows to provide channel ops. This is done via the capability add admin function: admin capability add <username> #gnucash,op.

Each time you connect, open a query with gncbot:

<you> identify <nick> <password>
<gncbot> The operation succeeded.
<you> op #gnucash

You can also do this within the #gnucash channel directly:

/msg gncbot identify <name> <password>
<gncbot> The operation succeeded
<you> @op
<gncbot> The operation succeeded

From IRC NickServ and ChanServ

You need to register your nick[s] and password once at GIMPnet IRC. You do this by sending a message to the NickServ identity to register:

/msg nickserv register <name> <password>
<nickserv> The operation Succeeded

The channel owner then needs to add you to the list of users in the Channel Server. This is done by setting the user access in Chanserv: /msg ChanServ access #gnucash add <username> 5

Then each time you connect, you identify with your nick and password against GIMPnet IRC:

/msg nickserv identify <name> <password>
<nickserv> The operation succeeded

Gncbot

Usually at code.gnucash.org gncbot, currently a supybot, is running. He should manage the channel. There a 2 ways to contact him:

1. In the gnucash channel precede commands by @. They are visible to other users.
2. Open a query and enter commands there.

If you are in the operator group, he should grant you operator rights after identifying.

If gncbot got disconnected, sombody has to grant him the rights again:

/op gncbot to op the gncbot. @op gncbot returns an error.

If gncbot got a wrong name like gncbot', rename him by @nick gncbot.

Topic

Default

/t Free GPL Personal and Small Business Accounting || Please don't ask to ask, just ask and wait! (Possibly a few hours!!) || publicly-logged channel || latest stable: 5.9 || www.gnucash.org || wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/

under attack

/t Free GPL Personal and Small Business Accounting || Moderated mode: To get a voice, register with NickServ and then re-join. || Please don't ask to ask, just ask and wait! (Possibly a few hours!!) || publicly-logged channel || latest stable: 3.4 || www.gnucash.org || wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/

In times of spam attack set moderated +m as channel mode.

Freenode redirect

User:Jsled created in 2010 irc.freenode.net/gnucash with /topic „The real #gnucash is irc://irc.gnome.org/gnucash ; GnuCash - GPL Personal Finance and Small Business Management“.

Channel Moderation

On March 2, 2019, GIMPnet started receiving a flood of flyby spammers using random names AND a whole botnet worth of IP Addresses, making it difficult to defend against. To that end, we turned on channel moderation (requiring users to have a voice in order to say anything). This way we know users must have a registered account and can easily be banned if they misbehave. Then enabled NickServ and ChanServ to auto-voice identified users: /msg Chanserv levels #gnucash set autovoice 0

The next step was to turn moderation on in the #gnucash channel: /mode +m

If we feel that we don't need it anymore, we can turn it off (/mode -m and no longer require users to have a voice.