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| author | Achilleas Pipinellis <axil@gitlab.com> | 2018-01-09 12:17:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Achilleas Pipinellis <axil@gitlab.com> | 2018-01-09 12:17:40 +0000 |
| commit | 6d0b5f9bfbdd618920ab011a01c7c411815e45e3 (patch) | |
| tree | 9a8255dd346ab187885a8283dc2fa38bf0acfe7f | |
| parent | 088de97c3d86d9cf615538836527d23dbccd9712 (diff) | |
| parent | be8b9021f2578ced36295557a4476119270463fc (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-6d0b5f9bfbdd618920ab011a01c7c411815e45e3.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'patch-24' into 'master'
Update irker documentation to mention an irker bug with key-protected channels.
See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!16274
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/user/project/integrations/irker.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/user/project/integrations/irker.md b/doc/user/project/integrations/irker.md index c63ea1316fe..ecdd83ce8f0 100644 --- a/doc/user/project/integrations/irker.md +++ b/doc/user/project/integrations/irker.md @@ -47,4 +47,8 @@ Irker accepts channel names of the form `chan` and `#chan`, both for the case, `Aorimn` is treated as a nick and no more as a channel name. Irker can also join password-protected channels. Users need to append -`?key=thesecretpassword` to the chan name. +`?key=thesecretpassword` to the chan name. When using this feature remember to +**not** put the `#` sign in front of the channel name; failing to do so will +result on irker joining a channel literally named `#chan?key=password` henceforth +leaking the channel key through the `/whois` IRC command (depending on IRC server +configuration). This is due to a long standing irker bug. |