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Bug 644987 - IRC account widget: add a "Need a password" tickybox
IRC account widget: add a "Need a password" tickybox
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Accounts
2.33.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-03-17 08:34 UTC by Guillaume Desmottes
Modified: 2018-05-22 14:41 UTC
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Description Guillaume Desmottes 2011-03-17 08:34:49 UTC 
Currently the only way to provide an IRC server password is to save it. We should add a tickybox setting the prompt-password param so Idle will ask for a pass when connecting.
Comment 1 Will Thompson 2011-07-13 13:08:24 UTC 
Huh, why does Idle need a password-prompt parameter? Why can't it just always ask for it if authentication without a password fails?
Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-09-06 07:42:50 UTC 
We should ask to an IRC expert, but iirc Sjoerd said that there is now way to know when connecting if the server requiers a password or not.
But yeah, if the protocol error is informative enough we could interpret it as "password needed" a popup a SASL channel.
Comment 3 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-02-20 14:30:26 UTC 
Looking at Idle's code that's indeed the way to go. :\

Tbh I don't like this approach either. I'm ready to be convinced that if you really have to connect to a password protected IRC server then just enter it to the accounts dialog.
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 14:41:13 UTC 
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