Registered users

[Varzeki]

At present the bot does not check if users are registered or not - this is abusable. The bot should check if the user has mode +r before responding to any non-help commands with something other than an error.

[Archina]

It seems you can use NICKSERV for this purpose.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1682920/determine-if-a-user-is-idented-on-irc

I would recommend storing the actual verification command in the config so it is easier to port this to other IRC servers.

[Varzeki]

I'm pretty sure IRC by default has a mode that nickserv sets - +r
Cinch already has the ability to check user modes, without querying another bot

if user.include? "r"
    true
else
    false
end

[Archina]

The Cinch Doku says you can use Cinch - authed but it is only assured to work on Quakenet and Freenode.

Edit:
Okay, I have tested the authed? method and it works flawlessly on Rizon.

on :message, /^.test/ do |m|
	m.reply "Whoot #{m.user.authed?}"
end

Do you know how to access the other users? For when a command has a target.

[Varzeki]

Cinch has a method for it somewhere - User('varzeki') will return a user object.

user = User('varzeki')
m.reply(user.host)

[ineeee]

indeed checking for +r is the recommended way. ircd says:

* umode :         +r     - User has been registered and identified for its nick.
* umode :                  This mode can be set by servers and services only.

should probably figure out how to use cinch for this, because User doesnt keep track of user modes.