[hybrid] password ignored?

[martin at pola.org]

 Hi,

 Can you give us your class{} and auth{} blocks, in the same order as 
 they appear in ircd.conf?

 - Martin


 On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:54:24 +0100, Egbert Jan van den Bussche wrote:
> Hi, first post here. I'm playing with ircd-hybrid om a 10.04LTS  
> server
> for internal use by the sysops who are using mostly ChatZilla from 
> home.
>
> The ircd version is 7.2.2 installed from source because we want to 
> use
> SSL/TLS sessions. That seems not enabled in the standard packet in 
> the
> Ubuntu repo. On top of that we would like to have passwords enforced.
>
> I kept the config mostly standard and just added the sysop users in 
> the
> first "auth" block. This block seems to place the authorized users in
> "opers" class. When I place a line "password =" in this auth block, I
> would expect that the user has to give a the password. Not. He can 
> login
> as before and does not need to give a password.
>
> When I login as an unknown user (and thus go thru the third auth 
> block),
> the password IS enforced when a I place a password line in there.
>
> Is this normal behaviour? The doc (well.. what I could find and what 
> is
> in the examples) does not help too much.
>
> Thanks for any advice!
> Egbert Jan, NL