<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>Howto/Register_Nickname</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>17</revnumber><date>2023-11-28 19:02:52</date><authorinitials>independence</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>16</revnumber><date>2011-12-26 05:53:00</date><authorinitials>184-100-8-110.eugn.qwest.net</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>15</revnumber><date>2010-06-19 23:51:43</date><authorinitials>kongo</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>14</revnumber><date>2010-06-12 19:19:56</date><authorinitials>independence</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>13</revnumber><date>2010-06-12 15:22:48</date><authorinitials>independence</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>12</revnumber><date>2009-12-31 13:30:25</date><authorinitials>c-44c6e455.015-311-6c6b701.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>11</revnumber><date>2008-02-17 20:08:45</date><authorinitials>JohanMarcusson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>10</revnumber><date>2008-02-17 20:01:05</date><authorinitials>localhost</authorinitials><revremark>converted to 1.6 markup</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>9</revnumber><date>2007-11-21 15:45:01</date><authorinitials>JohanMarcusson</authorinitials><revremark>sections, irssi notes, bit of cleanup</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>8</revnumber><date>2007-11-19 18:55:08</date><authorinitials>adsl-76-192-184-152.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net</authorinitials><revremark>added the alias tip, so the user can use &quot;/ns&quot; instead of &quot;/msg NickServ</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>7</revnumber><date>2007-10-11 13:20:53</date><authorinitials>JohanMarcusson</authorinitials><revremark>ircnet</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>6</revnumber><date>2007-07-17 21:10:58</date><authorinitials>JohanMarcusson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>5</revnumber><date>2007-05-03 00:21:52</date><authorinitials>JohanMarcusson</authorinitials><revremark>Format</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2007-04-25 13:02:34</date><authorinitials>JohanMarcusson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2006-12-18 18:51:05</date><authorinitials>p54995DAE.dip.t-dialin.net</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2006-11-23 13:13:21</date><authorinitials>JohanMarcusson</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2006-11-23 13:13:06</date><authorinitials>JohanMarcusson</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>Register with Nickserv on BlinkenIRC</title><section><title>Register</title><para>Start by connecting to IRC, and make sure you are on the right IRC network (irc.blinkenshell.org). If you don't know how to do this see <ulink url="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/Howto/Register_Nickname/wiki/Info/IRC#">Info/IRC</ulink>. </para><para>Change your nickname to the one you want to use in the future, the nickname you want to register. You can change nickname with this command: <code>/nick &lt;nickname&gt;</code>. </para><para>To register with <ulink url="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/Howto/Register_Nickname/wiki/NickServ#">NickServ</ulink> use this command: (replace &lt;password&gt; and &lt;email&gt; with your desired password and a working email address) </para><screen><![CDATA[/msg NickServ REGISTER <password> <email>]]></screen><para>To get some additional help, type: </para><screen><![CDATA[/msg NickServ HELP REGISTER]]></screen><para>The password has to be at least 5 characters long. Beware that your password is case sensitive (which means foolish, FOOLISH or fooLish would be three different passwords.) </para><para>Now you have registered your nick with <ulink url="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/Howto/Register_Nickname/wiki/NickServ#">NickServ</ulink>, and what's more, you are also already identified. </para></section><section><title>Identify</title><para>You will have to identify with <ulink url="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/Howto/Register_Nickname/wiki/NickServ#">NickServ</ulink> every time you connect to IRC. You do this by manually issuing the following command or use <ulink url="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/Howto/Register_Nickname/wiki/Info/IRC/SASL#">SASL</ulink>: </para><screen><![CDATA[/msg NickServ IDENTIFY <password>]]></screen></section><section><title>Irssi</title><para>The preferred method is to use <ulink url="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/Howto/Register_Nickname/wiki/Info/IRC/SASL#">SASL</ulink> to authenticate at the same time as connecting to the IRC network. </para><para>You can create an alias in irssi so you won't have to type as much: </para><screen><![CDATA[/alias NS /msg nickserv]]></screen><para>To use this alias type: </para><screen><![CDATA[/NS {IDENTIFY,REGISTER,HELP,or any other nickserv command}]]></screen><para>You can also make irssi automatically identify with <ulink url="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/Howto/Register_Nickname/wiki/NickServ#">NickServ</ulink> each time you connect by issuing a command like: </para><screen><![CDATA[/NETWORK ADD -autosendcmd "/^msg nickserv identify <password>;wait 2000" BlinkenIRC]]></screen><para>You have to have a network named BlinkenIRC and use that network name to connect for this to work (ie <code>/connect BlinkenIRC</code> instead of <code>/connect irc.blinkenshell.org</code>.) </para><para>Have fun! And don't forget to join #blinkenshell and say hello to <ulink url="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/Howto/Register_Nickname/wiki/independence#">independence</ulink> <inlinemediaobject><imageobject><imagedata depth="16" fileref="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/moin_static1911/mandarin/img/smile4.png" width="16"/></imageobject><textobject><phrase>;-)</phrase></textobject></inlinemediaobject> </para><screen><![CDATA[/join #blinkenshell]]></screen><!--rule (<hr>) is not applicable to DocBook--><itemizedlist><listitem override="none"><para><ulink url="http://ipv6.blinkenshell.org/wiki/Howto/Register_Nickname/wiki/CategoryHowto#">CategoryHowto</ulink> </para></listitem></itemizedlist></section></section></article>