Last revised: March 07, 2002

Users and Flags

People on IRC are recognized by the bot according to their
nick!user@host. That is, if I am on IRC as:

  *** Robey is robey@hubcap.clemson.edu (i hate milk)

Eggdrop will identify me according to "Robey!robey@hubcap.clemson.edu"
and not only by my nickname.

Eggdrop does not have access levels like some bots. There are no
meaningless numbers or titles. Instead, each user has "flags" that
entitle them to certain privileges. Think of a flag as a badge. Any user
can have any number of flags -- you can have no flags, or you can have
all of them. Some flags are good, some are bad. Each flag is identified
by a letter. A channel flag applies only to a specific channel, and a
global flag applies to all channels. The standard global flags are:

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Flag   Attribute        Description
    ------ ---------------- ------------------------------------------------
    n      owner            user has absolute control. Only give this flag
                            to people you trust completely.

    m      master           user has access to almost every feature of the
                            bot.

    t      botnet-master    user has access to all features dealing with the
                            botnet.

    a      auto-op          user is opped automatically upon joining a
                            channel.

    o      op               user has op access to all of the bot's channels.

    y      auto-halfop      user is halfopped automatically upon joining a
                            channel

    l      halfop           user has halfop access to all of the bot's
                            channels.

    g      auto-voice       user is voiced automatically upon joining a
                            channel.

    v      voice            user gets +v automatically on +autovoice
                            channels.

    f      friend           user is not punished for flooding, etc.

    p      party            user has access to the partyline.

    q      quiet            user does not get voice on +autovoice channels.

    r      dehalfop         user cannot gain halfops on any of the bot's
                            channels.

    d      deop             user cannot gain ops on any of the bot's
                            channels.

    k      auto-kick        user is kicked and banned automatically.

    x      xfer             user has access to the file transfer area of the
                            bot the bot.

    j      janitor          user can perform maintenance in the file area of
                            the bot (if it exists) -- like a "master" of the
                            file area. Janitors have complete access to the
                            filesystem.

    c      common           this marks a user who is connecting from a
                            public site from which any number of people can
                            use IRC. The user will now be recognized by
                            NICKNAME.

    b      bot              user is a bot.

    w      wasop-test       user needs wasop test for +stopnethack
                            procedure.

    z      washalfop-test   user needs washalfop test for +stopnethack
                            procedure.

    e      nethack-exempt   user is exempted from stopnethack protection.

    u      unshared         user record is not sent to other bots.

    h      highlight        use bold text in help/text files.
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------

  All global flags other then u, h, b, c, x, j, and p are also
  channel-specific flags. Flags are set with the chattr command. The
  syntax for this command is:

      chattr <nickname> [attributes] [channel]

  There are also 26 global user-defined flags and 26 channel
  user-defined flags (Capital letters A through Z). These are used by
  scripts, and their uses vary depending on the script that uses them.

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