Nickserv Commands

Click on a command below to see its relevant usage.


REGISTER

GROUP

IDENTIFY

ACCESS


SET

- DISPLAY

- PASSWORD

- LANGUAGE

- URL

- EMAIL

- ICQ

- GREET

- KILL

- SECURE

- PRIVATE

- HIDE

- MSG


DROP

RECOVER

RELEASE

SENDPASS

GHOST

ALIST

GLIST

INFO

LIST

LOGOUT



REGISTER - Register a nickname with services.
/msg nickserv register password email (e.g. /msg nickserv register myp4ssw0rd my@email.com)
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GROUP - Join an existing registered group, this command makes your nickname join the target nickname's group. Password is the password of the target nickname. The target nickname has to be registered first.

/msg nickserv group target-nick target-password

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IDENTIFY - Identify yourself with your password.

/msg nickserv identify password (e.g. /msg nickserv identify myp4ssw0rd)
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ACCESS - Modify the list of authorized addresses. Modifies or displays the access list for your nick. This is the list of addresses which will be automatically recognized by Nickserv as allowed to use the nick. If you want to use the nick from a different address, you need to send an IDENTIFY command to make Nickserv recognize you.

/msg nickserv access add *@host.you.want.here (e.g. /msg nickserv access add *@my.host.ntlworld.com)

/msg nickserv access del *@host.you.want.here (e.g. /msg nickserv access del *@my.host.ntlworld.com)

/msg nickserv access list (This will list all hosts in your nickserv access list)
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SET - Set options for your nick (You must be identified to your nick to use these commands).

- DISPLAY - Set the display of your group in Services.

/msg nickserv set display nick (The nick must be a nick that is in your current group)
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- PASSWORD - Set your nickname password.

/msg nickserv set password newpassword (e.g. /msg nickserv set password myn3wp4ssw0rd)
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- LANGUAGE Set the language Services will use when sending messages to you.

/msg nickserv set language number (e.g. /msg nickserv set language 1)

1 - English

2 - Français (French)

3 - Deutsch (German)

4 - Italiano (Italiano)

5 - Português (Portuguese)

6 - Español (Spanish)

7 - Türkçe (Turkish)

8 - Catala (Catalan)

9 - ÅëëçíéêÜ (Greek)

10 - Nederlands (Dutch)

11 - Ðóññêèé (Russian)

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- URL - Associate a URL with your nickname. This URL will be displayed whenever someone requests information on your nick with the INFO command.

/msg nickserv set URL URL (e.g. /msg nickserv set URL http://www.abjects.net)
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- EMAIL - Associate an E-mail address with your nickname. This address will be displayed whenever someone requests information on your nick with the INFO command.

/msg nickserv set email email (e.g. /msg nickserv set email me@my.mail.com)
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- ICQ - Associate an ICQ number with your nickname. This number will be displayed whenever someone requests information on your nick with the INFO command.

/msg nickserv set ICQ number (e.g. /msg nickserv set ICQ 123456)
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- GREET - Associate a greet message with your nickname. This makes the given message the greet of your nickname, that will be displayed when joining a channel that has GREET option enabled, provided that you have the necessary access on that channel.

/msg nickserv set greet greet message here (e.g. /msg nickserv set greet Welcome back!)

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- KILL - Turn protection on or off. With protection on, if another user tries to take your nick, they will be given one minute to change to another nick, after which Nickserv will forcibly change their nick.

/msg nickserv set kill on (Turns the automatic protection option for your nick on)

/msg nickserv set kill quick (If you select quick, the user will be given only 20 seconds instead of the usual 60)

/msg nickserv set kill immed (Nick will change immediately; please do not use this option unless necessary.)

/msg nickserv set kill off (Turns the automatic protection option for your nick off)
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- SECURE - Turn nickname security on or off. With secure set, you must enter your password before you will be recognized as the owner of the nick, regardless of whether your address is on the access list.

/msg nickserv set secure on

/msg nickserv set secure off
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- PRIVATE - Prevent your nickname from appearing in a /msg NickServ LIST. However, anyone who knows your nickname can still get information on it using the INFO command.

/msg nickserv set private on

/msg nickserv set private off
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- HIDE - Hide certain pieces of nickname information. Allows you to prevent certain pieces of information from being displayed when someone does a NickServ INFO on your nick.

/msg nickserv set hide email on | off (When set on this will hide your email in the nickserv info)

/msg nickserv set hide usermask on | off (When set on this will hide last seen in nickserv info)

/msg nickserv set hide quit on | off (When set on this will hide last quit message in nickserv info)
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- MSG - Change the communication method of Services. Allows you to choose the way Services are communicating with you. With MSG set, services will use messages else they'll use the default via notices.

/msg nickserv set msg off
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DROP - Cancel the registration of a nickname You may drop any nick within your group without any special privileges. You must be identified to use this command.

/msg nickserv drop nick (This command will drop the given nickname from your group from the nickserv database)
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RECOVER - Kill another user who has taken your nick. Allows you to recover your nickname if someone else has taken it; this does the same thing that NickServ does automatically if someone tries to use a kill-protected nick. When you give this command, Nickserv will bring a fake user online with the same nickname as the user you're trying to recover your nick from. This causes the IRC servers to disconnect the other user. This fake user will remain online for one minute to ensure that the other user does not immediately reconnect; after that minute, you can reclaim your nick. Alternatively, use the RELEASE command to get the nick back sooner.

/msg nickserv recover nickname password
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RELEASE - Regain custody of your nick. Instructs Nickserv to remove any hold on your nickname caused by automatic kill protection or use of the RECOVER command. By default, such holds last for one minute; this command gets rid of them sooner.

/msg nickserv release nick password
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SENDPASS - Send an email containing your nickserv password given in the register command. (This service is currently not activated for Abjects's services but may be in the future).

/msg nickserv sendpass nickname
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GHOST - Terminates a "ghost" IRC session using your nick. A "ghost" session is one which is not actually connected, but which the IRC server believes is still online for one reason or another. Typically, this happens if your computer crashes or your Internet or modem connection goes down while you're on IRC.

/msg nickserv ghost nick password (e.g. /msg nickserv ghost mynick myp4ssw0rd)
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ALIST- Lists channels you have access on. You must be identified to your nick in order to use this command.

/msg nickserv alist
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GLIST - List all the nicknames in your group.

/msg nickserv glist
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INFO - Displays information about the given nickname, such as the nick's owner, last seen address and time, and nick options. If you are identified for the nick you're and ALL is specified, you will be shown all the information; regardless of whether it's hidden or not.

/msg nickserv info nick (e.g. /msg nickserv info someone)

/msg nickserv info nick all (e.g. /msg nickserv info yournick all)
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LIST - Lists all registered nicknames which match the given pattern, in nick!user@host format. Nicks with the PRIVATE option set will only be displayed to Services admins.

/msg nickserv list pattern

Examples below :-

/msg nickserv list *me!*@* (Lists all registered nicks with "me" in their nickname)

/msg nickserv list *!*me*@* (Lists all registered nicks with "me" in their ident)

/msg nickserv list *!*@*.net (Lists all registered nicks with .net in their host)
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LOGOUT - Without a parameter, reverses the effect of the IDENTIFY command, i.e. make you not recognized as the real owner of the nick anymore. Note, however, that you won't be asked to reidentify yourself.

/msg nickserv logout
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STATUS - Returns whether the user using the given nickname is recognized as the owner of the nickname. The response has this format: nickname status-code, where nickname is the nickname sent with the command, and status-code is one of the following:

0 - no such user online or nickname not registered

1 - user not recognized as nickname's owner

2 - user recognized as owner via access list only

3 - user recognized as owner via password identification



Up to sixteen nicknames may be sent with each command; the rest will be ignored. No error message is generated if no nickname is given.

/msg nickserv status nick1 nick2 nick3 (Up to 16 nicks)



(A majority of this help was taken from /msg nickserv help)