Add means to ensure users are authenticated with nickserv?

[patcon]

The gittip project is considering how to use hubot to deploy from the public #gittip channel on freenode. Still not sure if it's a good idea, but we would definitely need a way to ensure that only the designated irc users are allowed to "become" privileged from hubot's point of view.

Links:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1682920/determine-if-a-user-is-idented-on-irc
• https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/blob/master/src/scripts/auth.coffee

[jgable]

That's interesting. I've also thought about adding something like this before. I'm worried this could introduce a significant delay in bot commands since you'd effectively have to check this before every command response, for every person, all the time.

[patcon]

@jgable Ah missed this :) Could we not set it up in such a way that it only checked when calling a command that used robot.Auth.hasRole?

https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/blob/master/src/scripts/auth.coffee#L18

cc: @balupton

[balupton]

We're also thinking of making a hubot script that allows moderators to interact with github issues (close, label, etc) via IRC. As such, this would also be essential for such functionality.

[patcon]

Ok, so I've sorted out how the irc lib and communication with nickserv works. I did npm install irc, and this script gives me the data that I want, so I guess I can move forward with this sometime soon.

var irc = require('irc');
var client = new irc.Client('irc.freenode.com', 'myNick', {
  channels: ['#testtesttest'],
});

client.addListener('notice', function (from, to, text) {
  if (from == 'NickServ' && text.indexOf('ACC') != -1) {
    console.log(from + ': ' + text);
  };
});

client.addListener('notice', function (from, to, text) {
  if(from=='NickServ' && text.toLowerCase().indexOf('identify') != -1) {
    console.log(text);
    client.say('NickServ', 'ACC patcon');
  };
});

It basically waits for nickserv to talk to me via notice, then asks it to identify someone and provides feedback that can be read like so.

➜  /tmp  node irc-server.js
This nickname is registered. Please choose a different nickname, or identify via /msg NickServ identify <password>.
NickServ: patcon ACC 3

[mikeumus]

I give this issue a thumb: :+1:

[macalinao]

This is kind of important

[chrisdotcode]

It's a bit late now, but I think that @patcon's solution looks pretty good for this sort of thing. (and may gratipay rest in peace).