I have a semi-closed system of 1500 users that I would like to offer IRC services to - but only if they authenticate against a custom MySQL table entry. I'd like to call a perl script that will do the lookup of a given identity & password pair, and return a 0 exit code for success, and a non-zero code for failure to authenticate. So my question to the ngIRCd community & author is whether there are plans, or interest in an authentication hook being added. And, whether this kind of approach would be incompatible with standards-compliant IRC clients. Thanks! -- Associate.com - THE Place to Associate! http://freegroups.net Is Your E-mail Group Here? See http://freegroups.net/faq/your-group-here.html