| Tip of the day: The antirandom module can be a useful tool to block clients with random looking nicks. |
Actions
Below is a list of all possible "ban actions" that UnrealIRCd supports. It is used by spamfilter::action (and /SPAMFILTER on IRC), blacklist::action, set::nopost::ban-action, ban version::action, set::antirandom::ban-action, etc.
There are both "regular" actions and "soft" actions. The soft actions (eg: soft-kill) are not applied to users who are authenticated with Services (preferably with SASL).
| Regular name | Soft name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| kill | soft-kill | Kills the user. The user may still reconnect. |
| tempshun | soft-tempshun | Shuns the current session of the user, this makes it so the user cannot send any commands anymore. When the user reconnects, the shun is gone. |
| shun | soft-shun | Puts a shun on the IP, this makes it so the user cannot send any commands anymore. |
| kline | soft-kline | Puts a kline on the IP. The user can no longer connect to this server. |
| gline | soft-gline | Puts a gline on the IP. The user can no longer connect to any server in this IRC network. |
| zline | Puts a zline on the IP. The user can no longer connect to this server. Note that a ZLINE causes very quick killing which means that SSL/TLS users will not see a proper error message and TKL exceptions won't work. Only use zlines if you are sure the user/IP is hostile, otherwise use a kline instead. | |
| gzline | Puts a gzline (global zline) on the IP. The user can no longer connect to any server in this IRC network. Note that a (G)ZLINE causes very quick killing which means that SSL/TLS users will not see a proper error message and TKL exceptions won't work. Only use gzlines if you are sure the user/IP is hostile, otherwise use a gline instead. | |
| block | soft-block | Block the message (or action) only |
| dccblock | soft-dccblock | Mark the user so (s)he is unable to send files through DCC |
| viruschan | soft-viruschan | Part all channels, join set::spamfilter::virus-help-channel, disables all commands except PONG, ADMIN, and msg/notices to set::spamfilter::virus-help-channel |
| warn | soft-warn | Send a notice to IRCOps (spamfilter snomask), and inform the user that the message has been intercepted. No further action is taken, the message is not blocked. |
Depending on the context, some actions won't make sense and therefore won't function. For example, the action viruschan may be unavailable for the nopost and blacklist modules because a client may be intercepted before (s)he actually came online as a user.
See also
Automatic bans, such as by spamfilter, blacklist, antirandom, etc. also take into account the set::automatic-ban-target setting, which defaults to placing a ban on *@ip.