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| author | Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@mapreri.org> | 2018-01-07 14:58:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> | 2018-01-08 17:32:43 +0100 |
| commit | be8b9021f2578ced36295557a4476119270463fc (patch) | |
| tree | 2d60da22b18f448f3d802408d5733cd478db021c | |
| parent | 59b11c3d9dc6389f6325683587286f83a6ee85f4 (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-be8b9021f2578ced36295557a4476119270463fc.tar.gz | |
Update irker documentation to mention an irker bug with key-protected channels.
Signed-off-by: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>
| -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. |