T.A.W.A.N.

Hi,

As ye’ve probably noticed, when someone logs in via cgiirc, you don’t get any useful information other than the nick they choose. If they use a nick you don’t recognise, you haven’t a clue who they are. In an effort to make things more transparent, i’ve made a tiny patch to cgiirc which sets the user’s realname field to be the same as the username they used for http auth.

For example, say i log on to cgiirc, and set my nick to ‘kormat’. When you do /whois, before today you’d see a line something like this:

— [kormat] (www-data@localhost) : CGI:IRC User

Now, you’ll see this:

— [kormat] (www-data@localhost) : diamond

I’ve done a small bit of testing, and it looks like the change shouldn’t cause any issues, but if it does, just let support@ know, ta.

– diamond (or possibly kormat)