need to change my owner hostmask

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Oct 03, 2001 4:10 pm

on our network we have a unstalbe dhcp server so sometimes my ip is shown and others it is dhcp0029292blah..anyway i need to change this so my egg knows i am the owner like *@* hostmask or something.

thanks

[ This Message was edited by: kforce on 2001-10-03 14:11 ]

Petersen · Post by **Petersen** » Wed Oct 03, 2001 4:46 pm

.help +host

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Oct 03, 2001 9:36 pm

adding *@* as owners hostmask would be a big security risk, but to do it in DCC with your bot do:

.+host <user> *@*

codak · Post by **codak** » Thu Oct 04, 2001 2:06 am

On 2001-10-03 14:10, kforce wrote:
on our network we have a unstalbe dhcp server so sometimes my ip is shown and others it is dhcp0029292blah..anyway i need to change this so my egg knows i am the owner like *@* hostmask or something.

thanks

[ This Message was edited by: kforce on 2001-10-03 14:11 ]

using the *@* host mask is a horrid security risk. try this: create a user with a different nick say (yournick1) with the host dhcp0029292blah while your orginal nick keeps the orginal mask. This may be a hassle but it sure beats out using *@* host mask which makes your bot easily hackable by anyone using a bruteforce cracker.

if you DO use *@* i advise using a 29bit password (29 characters) which would then blunt most hackers with little resources available. Now, finding out if the eggdrop can handle a 29bit password is another thing, I don't know, haven't tried it but only one way to find out i suppose.

heh - don't know what i was thinkin when i wrote that. just use /msg yourbot addhost password

[ This Message was edited by: codak on 2001-10-04 11:03 ]

[ This Message was edited by: codak on 2001-10-04 11:03 ]