How does IRC know I'm <root>?

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From: Ivan Smith
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 00:00

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I've got tkirc going (a tkl/tcl X interface to IRCII) and I tried to
connect to various irc servers with it:

I am denied access to most of them because I'm apparently irc'ing as
root.

I checked the exports from bash and modified them from root to my dialup
host name, still with no luck.
I am running an account with the user "ivan" and GID/UID of 0,0 (root).

Should I change the IDs to 500,500 or something to prevent this?

I presume that environment  variables aren't enough and the servers are
getting my permission status from somewhere?

It's got me stumped.

Ivan.

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