Extended bans Jilles Tjoelker -------------------------------------- Extended bans (ban conditionals) allow different checks than the usual nick!user@host or nick!user@ip match to determine whether someone should be banned, quieted, exempted or invited. Extended bans are of the form $[~][:]. The is one character (case insensitive) and determines the type of match. Most types allow or require an extra field . If the tilde (~) is present, the result of the comparison will be negated, unless the ban is invalid in which case it will never match. Invalid bans are ones where is missing but required or where is otherwise invalid as noted below. Unless noted below, all types can be used with +b, +q, +e and +I. If any extended ban types are loaded, they are listed in 005 (RPL_ISUPPORT) as EXTBAN=$:. Local users cannot add extended bans of an unknown type or invalid bans. If a remote user adds an extended ban of an unknown type, the mode change is processed normally. Furthermore, extended bans of an unknown type can always be listed or removed. The ability to send to a channel is cached; this cache may not be updated if a condition for an extended ban changes. To work around this, part and rejoin the channel, or add or remove a +b, +q or +e entry. The extban types that come with charybdis are: extb_account.so $a matches all logged in users $a: matches users logged in with a username matching the mask (* and ? wildcards) extb_channel.so $c: matches users who are on the given channel; this is only valid if the channel exists and is not +s or +p. (The ops of the channel the ban is on cannot necessarily see whether the user is in the target channel, so it should not influence whether they can join either.) extb_oper.so $o matches opers (most useful with +I) extb_realname.so $r: matches users with a realname (gecos) matching the mask (* and ? wildcards); this can only be used with +b and +q extb_server.so $s: matches users connected to a server matching the mask (* and ? wildcards); this can only be used with +b and +q Comparisons: +b $~a is similar to +r but also prevents not logged in users talking or changing their nick while on channel. +iI $o is the same as +O in dreamforge-derived ircds. Creating extban types: extban_table, indexed by the extban character, contains function pointers of the following type: typedef int (*ExtbanFunc)(const char *data, struct Client *client_p, struct Channel *chptr, long mode_type); The arguments are as follows: data: the text after the colon, NULL if there was no colon client_p: the client to check; this is always a local client, which may be on or off channel chptr: the channel mode_type: CHFL_BAN, CHFL_QUIET, CHFL_EXCEPTION or CHFL_INVEX The return value: EXTBAN_INVALID: the mask is invalid, it never matches even if negated and cannot be added; if this is returned for one client_p it must be returned for all EXTBAN_NOMATCH: the client_p does not match the mask EXTBAN_MATCH: the client_p matches the mask The function is called whenever a (local) client needs to be checked against a +bqeI entry of the given extban type, and whenever a local client tries to add such an entry. (Clients are allowed to add bans matching themselves.) --