IRC Clients / Security

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hartkemd
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Joined: 03/30/2018

What IRC clients are popular amongst Trisquel users?
I have tried Pidgin, HexChat, and WeeChat.

Also, what is a good way to secure the connection? Using SSL?
Is it good practice to securely connect to IRC?

SuperTramp83

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>What IRC clients are popular amongst Trisquel users?

I wouldn't know, I imagine Pidgin is the most widely used.
Irssi is my favorite -> https://irssi.org/

>Also, what is a good way to secure the connection? Using SSL?

Sure. Here some basic info to get you going in case you decide to go for it ->

https://freenode.net/kb/answer/irssi
https://irssi.org/documentation/startup/

> Is it good practice to securely connect to IRC?

It is. Indeed securing any connection is always a good practice. Encryption werks \o/

hartkemd
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Thanks for the info. I'm trying out Irssi.

I was able to connect via SSL (verified by a /whois), but SASL was not working correctly.
I get the error: "Cannot authenticate via SASL (The authentication timed out)".
Any ideas?

SuperTramp83

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I guess you misconfigured it. I attached my config file. Basically you just need to change the username and the password (please don't steal my password :P ), and the #chans according to your preference of course..

I recommend the three scripts I use with Irssi, it makes it much more usable, just right.

mouse.pl nickcolor.pl trackbar.pl

Let me know if you still face issues with it.

*remove .txt from the filename (trisqumello forummino only allows a limited set of file formats to upload..)

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hartkemd
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It turns out I had not registered with NickServ.
Once I did "/msg NickServ register password name at domain", ran the command they emailed me, and updated "/network add -sasl_username username -sasl_password password -sasl_mechanism PLAIN freenode", then it worked.

SuperTramp83

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>It turns out I had not registered with NickServ.

Right.. Good you solved it. cheers o/