Login to passwordless irc servers

[kallisti5]

Most IRC servers use nickserv. I really don't even understand what would use a password login now-a-days.. yet it's a required field.

[flavorjones]

Hi @kallisti5, thanks for the comment.

I'm a little confused, so I hope you'll help me understand how you're thinking about this. I'm not an IRC expert, but my understanding is that nickserv requires a password for authentication. Is that a mistaken assumption?

If you could provide more information about how you imagine this resource should work to better accommodate your workflow, that would be great!

[kallisti5]

99% of IRC servers can be logged into without a password.

Some servers offer nickserv / chanserv, which is a bot which enables you to authenticate and kick off any un-authenticated users with your username. Authentication allows you to register channels, etc... but definitely isn't a requirement to log into an IRC server and access channels. (some channels do set flags however to require authenticated users)

As a work-around, I gave this resource a random nonsense password, and it worked as expected. (without any valid auth)

The solution here is to "not require a password"

[flavorjones]

I'm open to a PR to make authentication optional. Let me know if you're interested in helping, and maybe we can chat about it.