2024-03-29           ZNC AND RCIRC AND AUTHINFO.PGP


The password needs to be in quotes.

I followed Matto's advice on gopher[1] "Chatting
with Emacs rcirc and ZNC" to combine rcirc and znc.

rcirc comes with support for auth-sources, but it took me a while to
figure out my mistake in authinfo.gpg.

With the help of folks on #rcirc ... I found the znc password needs to
be in quotes, like this:

,----
| machine <server> :user <user> :port <port> password "nick/channel:supersecretpass"
`----

And then you configure rcirc, pointing it to your znc server like this.

,----
| (setq rcirc-server-alist '(("<server>"
|                             :port <port>
|                             :encryption tls
|                             :nick "<user>"
|                             :full-name "<User Name")))
`----

You can get details on this by turning on:

,----
| (setq auth-source-debug t)
`----

Warning: the debug messages will go to the *Message* buffer, showing
authentication data in the clear - except for the password.

You can also use

,----
| (auth-source-search :host "<server>")
`----

to check if there is a matching line.

[1] gopher://box.matto.nl