Alex Chiang: setting freenode channel passwords
January 20th, 2011 • Related • Filed Under
Setting up a password protected channel on freenode involves wrestling with ChanServ, and if you don’t have sacrificial goats handy or an advanced degree in 8th level rune reading, you may be scratching all the hair off your head as you ponder the help that appears during any reasonable google search.
You read the page and think, “ah, I must say /msg ChanServ flags #channel +k mypassword”, but you are wrong. Because then you are missing a username.
