Prevent client from showing up on whois?
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[deleted] · 2013-08-16 16:39

I'm not sure why it comes up, but when I do a whois on myself, I get
this as part of the output:

(~weechat@somedomain): weechat

What exactly is this, and how do I prevent it from happening? Very new
to the irc game, so wanting to learn what all this stuff is and means.
Thanks in advance

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arilotter · 2013-08-16 20:01

weechat is setting itself as your "realname".
if there's no option for it, get a better client.

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trua · 2013-08-16 20:02

Unless you are on a weird network with some kind of non-standard
extensions to the way whois works, the name of the client software is
not information that is included. The "~weechat@" part is what's
called your [ident](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ident_protocol), and
is either directly your Unix username passed through to the IRC server
or a value set by your IRC client. This looks like weechat is setting
your ident to "weechat" by default. I'm not completely sure what the
second occurrence of "weechat" is, but my guess is your "real name" or
"ircname" is also by default set to "weechat".

Note that even if you set these options to other values, you can still
find out what client software someone is using by sending a [CTCP
VERSION](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-to-
client_protocol#VERSION) request. That is, unless the user blocks
those requests or sets their client to not respond. In weechat, it
looks like you can set the VERSION reply string to empty with this
command: **/set irc.ctcp.version ""**

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FiXato · 2013-08-16 20:15

There is:

    /set irc.server_default.realname "whatever you want as
gecos/realname"
and:

    /set irc.server_default.username "YourIdent"

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FiXato · 2013-08-16 20:23

Have a look at the official [WeeChat Quickstart documentation](http://
www.weechat.org/files/doc/stable/weechat_quickstart.en.html#irc_server
_options):

> To set username and realname:
>
>     /set irc.server.oftc.username "My user name"
>     /set irc.server.oftc.realname "My real name"

Where _'oftc'_ is the specific saved server's name. The defaults are
stored under _irc.server_default.*_ settings:

    /set irc.server_default.username "YourIdent"
    /set irc.server_default.realname "whatever you want as default
gecos/realname"

I would suggest you get the iset.pl script (_/script install iset.pl_)
and then use:

    /iset irc.server*

to review all your server settings _(along with help info describing
each setting)_ and change the ones you want to use non-default values.

Also see [my WeeChat guide to viewing/adjusting
settings](http://fixato.org/guides/setting_up_weechat.html#settings)
and [how to use /help to learn more about WeeChat commands and
settings](http://fixato.org/guides/setting_up_weechat.html#help-
command)

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[deleted] · 2013-08-16 22:11

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