[hybrid] password ignored?

[Egbert Jan van den Bussche]

Op 17-11-2011 10:54, Egbert Jan van den Bussche schreef:
> 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

OH NO!!! The obvious happened. I forgot a ";" after the last "user ="!
Stupid me. Password in first "auth" bock works now.

Tnx for your patience
Egbert Jan