Currently when twisted connects to an irc server, the username on the USER connect line, is assumed to be the same as the nickname. Below is a patch that lets the username be set manually the same way as 'password' is defined. If a username isn't specified, it defaults to assuming self.username = nickname I found this useful to connect to a server which required a specific username as part of its authentication but I didn't want to / need to run ident. I couldn't think of a good reason for not being able to set the username if we can already set everything else :-) Index: Twisted/twisted/words/protocols/irc.py =================================================================== --- Twisted/twisted/words/protocols/irc.py (revision 14959) +++ Twisted/twisted/words/protocols/irc.py (working copy) @@ -535,6 +535,7 @@ nickname = 'irc' password = None realname = None + username = None ### Responses to various CTCP queries. userinfo = None @@ -895,7 +896,9 @@ if self.password is not None: self.sendLine("PASS %s" % self.password) self.setNick(nickname) - self.sendLine("USER %s foo bar :%s" % (nickname, self.realname)) + if self.username is None: + self.username = nickname + self.sendLine("USER %s foo bar :%s" % (self.username, self.realname)) def setNick(self, nickname): self.nickname = nickname -- Avleen Vig Systems Administrator Personal: www.silverwraith.com "Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others." - Oscar Wilde