Can't log in to Snoonet with ZNC but KiwiIRC works fine?
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Ken_Mcnutt · 2020-01-02 22:22

I've been setting up my ZNC instance and so far freenode works
perfectly and I can log in with SASL.

However snoonet is a different story. I put in my registered nickname
and password, same as I did with freenode. When I try to connect, I
get the error

1ARAMLW9F: USER: Your username is not valid

Like it isn't even trying to use the nickname I supplied. I can log in
to snoonet just fine through the KiwiIRC web UI. Has anyone else
gotten it to work?

I even had snoonet working on weechat when I was connecting directly
without ZNC.

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[deleted] · 2020-01-02 23:55

What does ZNC say if you execute `/msg *controlpanel get ident` on
your Snoonet connection?

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[deleted] · 2020-01-02 23:58

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Ken_Mcnutt · 2020-01-03 00:24

Found where the output was going. Here's what is said;

    <hostname>: get ident
    *controlpanel: Ident = name@name

where hostname seems to be the hostname of my system, even though I
defined that *nowhere* in the ZNC settings.

I changed my ident to `name@name` where `name` is a version of my
nick, so that seems to be working OK.

I'm assuming my hostname being passed through is the cause of the
error? That being said I haven't seen the hostname come up when
snoonet is complaining about invalid nicknames.

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[deleted] · 2020-01-03 09:03

The error is caused by @ not being allowed in usernames.

I'm guessing you entered the wrong thing when configuring it because
ZNC won't do that by itself.

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Ken_Mcnutt · 2020-01-03 15:45

I guess I fundementally misunderstand what an "Ident" is. Because from
the examples I've seen they take for form of `xx@xx`, and this worked
for freenode.

My nickname does not contain a @.

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[deleted] · 2020-01-03 16:46

freenode's IRC server has special handling which drops everything
after the @ to avoid problems like this. There's a module which does
this for InspIRCd too but Snoonet doesn't have it loaded.