Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 51588
username sent to irc servers seems randomized
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:35:46 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010725 Description of problem: When I log onto irc with BitchX, or my bot logs on using eggdrop, the user name field seems corrupted. For example my hostname is [EiFfqdExD@adsl-63-201-24-182.dsl.renocs.nvbell.net and a whoami command returns chris How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log onto an IRC server (I'm using EFNET) 2. Run a /whois command on yourself and check your user name in your hostname 3. Username is randomized Actual Results: incorrect hostname sent to irc server Expected Results: username should match that of the whoami command Additional info: Started happening when I upgraded to Roswell
The default configuration sends an encrypted reply, for privacy reasons. The string can be decrypted by a sysadmin when asked by a remote site to do so - there's no reason to send a username in the clear. Read the docs if you want to change the behaviour.