Votebot should use NickServ accounts instead of hostnames for admins.

be advised that you do not HAVE to use a "cloak" from freenode, its advised but not absolutely necessary. You may still add your ip address that is not unaffiliated, its a little more of a security hazard but its still available.

that said you can add ip98-181.2.4-whatever.cox.whatever if you wish, the bot reads the config file for what it is, it doesnt judge you if youre not using the cloaks.

setting as wont fix for now due to comments above.

I realize that you do not need to have a cloak, but it would help if it
could use NickServ. Nathan was the one that told me to file this bug.

On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 21:54 +0000, Robb Munson wrote:
> that said you can add ip98-181.2.4-whatever.cox.whatever if you wish,
> the bot reads the config file for what it is, it doesnt judge you if
> youre not using the cloaks.
>
> ** Changed in: votebot
> Status: New => Won't Fix
>

well, ok then....this is the first time I have ever heard of this....sounds like the developers need to have a pow-wow :) (off topic banter, but yes)

changed to confirmed.

This really doesn't bother me now that I have a PDPC cloak :)

Sadly, now I like this as it would cut down the size of the config files.

Well, all the bot would have to do is /whois and look for which
account it's identified onto.

But, I think that it should be an option that is asked in the setup.pl
to make it compatible for networks that do not offer NickServ

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Robb Munson <email address hidden> wrote:
> Sadly, now I like this as it would cut down the size of the config
> files.
>
> --
> Votebot should use NickServ accounts instead of hostnames for admins.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/483163
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A little compromise, how bout this show the names of the admins in the config file, have the bot look for "%admin is identified to services" in the bot itself, take out the whole hostmask lookup thing...

then again even that...meh..

Have the bot have an admin password, only give it out to our admins, make the bot search for the host of the admin when they issue the .password command, if they dont match the host then no dice, they arent getting in.