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by welterde 2546 days ago
> 1. Because there is no real account management you don't have any proper authentication, which make administrating a channel real dodgy (even with network provided bots).

That's not really an issue of IRC itself, but the IRC network you are using.

Running your own IRC server would solve that issue - ngircd for instance supports authentication using PAM or inspircd can directly perform authentication against either LDAP or a SQL database.

And doesn't IRCv3 SASL authentication + only allowing registered users into the channel pretty much solve the issue as well?