add an identd
key to WEBIRC options
#513
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the motivation behind this is the IRCd can't do this lookup itself; an ident lookup must come from the IP to which the end user is connecting, which means the gateway has to be the one to do it.
libera.chat relies on ident responses to be able to confidently ban individual users on shared hosts; otherwise we'd have to ban
~ident
, which will only hold until a user changes what they send inUSER