====== AuthServ ======

AuthServ is a special "bot" which manages user accounts for AfterNET. 

Everyone who uses AfterNET regularly should create an account. Accounts let you:
  * be known by our channel service bot [[X3|X3]] 
  * hide your hostname, set preferences
  * send and receive offline messages (via memoserv) 
  * avoid abusive users
  * and more!

===== Creating Your Account =====
There are 2 ways to create an account:
==== Go to our website (you are here)====
  * click [[https://www.afternet.org/home?do=register|Register]] from the login page
**OR**
==== Connect on IRC and /msg AuthServ commands ====
  /msg AuthServ register <account> <password> <email>      (without the '<' and '>' !)

    * <account> - Enter the account name you want to create
    * <password> - type the password you wish to use
    * <email> - Enter your valid email address 
NOTE: (Please type your email address carefully, you must be able to receive a verification email from us in order to activate your account!)

===== Logging In =====
Once your account is created, you must login the next (and every) time you connect. There are two ways to login. Manualy, and Login-On-Connect (LOC)
==== Configure Login-On-Connect ====
Our special [[help:connecting:login-on-connect]] system allows you to login before you fully connect to our servers. This has many benifits:
  * Clean and easy automation with your IRC client software
  * Automatically masks your hostname/ip address
  * Bypasses login security checks (RBL lists)

Follow this link to configure LOC: [[help:connecting:login-on-connect]]
==== Manual Login ====
To login to your account manually:
  /msg AuthServ auth <account> <password>      (without the '<' and '>'!)

  * <account> - your account name
  * <password> - your password
(optional, to hide your hostname/ip address) /mode yournick +x   

===== More =====
To learn more of what you can do with AuthServ, and X3, see [[help:irc:x3_help]] or
  /msg AuthServ Help