From 9e8df0ecc0dbb2f1155e223095127187f9035a3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Gehaxelt <github@gehaxelt.in>
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2019 22:08:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add the possibility to authenticate against NickServer

---
 bot.py           | 3 +++
 config.py.sample | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/bot.py b/bot.py
index 7cd1ad2..8455a7c 100644
--- a/bot.py
+++ b/bot.py
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ def on_kick(self, connection, event):
             connection.join(self.__config.CHANNEL)
 
     def on_welcome(self, connection, event):
+        """Authenticate using NickServ"""
+        if self.__config.NICKPASS:
+            self.connection.privmsg("NickServ", "IDENTIFY {}".format(self.__config.NICKPASS))
         """Join the correct channel upon connecting"""
         if irc.client.is_channel(self.__config.CHANNEL):
             connection.join(self.__config.CHANNEL)
diff --git a/config.py.sample b/config.py.sample
index f33e878..28f13ca 100644
--- a/config.py.sample
+++ b/config.py.sample
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ class Config(object):
         self.SSL = False
         self.CHANNEL = "##YOURCHANNEL"
         self.NICK = "YOURBOTNICK"
+        self.NICKPASS = "YOURPASSWORD"
         self.admin_nicks= ['YOURADMINNICK']
         #=Colours=
         #1 - red		2 - green	3 - yellow