A trusted caller can now do everything a user does through NickServ commands
— Register, Authenticate, SetPassword, SetEmail, Confirm, Drop, ForceLogout,
GroupNick, UngroupNick — over gRPC instead of IRC. Each mirrors its NickServ
command's exact behavior (Drop reuses the same cleanup a peer's gossiped drop
already triggers; SetPassword/Register derive credentials off the shared
engine lock, same as the IRC path) but is privileged: the bearer token is the
authorization, so most calls skip the account's own password check the IRC
command requires — the same trust model as an admin-level JSON-RPC
integration. A write commits locally and gossips to every other node exactly
like an IRC-originated one, no new propagation path needed.
Verified end-to-end over the real wire, not just unit tests: registered an
account via gRPC, changed its password via gRPC, then logged into a live
IRC session with that exact password.
Snapshot (full read) + Subscribe (live stream) over the same committed-entry
channel gossip uses. Identity and metadata only — password hashes, SCRAM
verifiers, cert fingerprints, and the finer channel-ops-list events never
cross this API. Bearer-token authenticated, optional server TLS. Verified
end-to-end against a live test-net registration, not just unit tests.
Protocol-agnostic core: a Protocol trait maps raw server-to-server lines to a
normalized event/action model, so the engine never touches a raw line and a new
ircd is one new module. Adds event-log state (state is a fold over the log) and
a service framework. First protocol impl links to an InspIRCd (insp4) uplink —
completes the CAPAB/SERVER handshake, bursts, and introduces NickServ.
