// If identd for some reason cannot anser a request, it ansers with
// NO-USER. This may me because it is a service that has no ordinary
// user, like mail. Or it could be because you turned the service
// off. If you don't want your usernames to be sent around the internet,
// you better turn identd off.
NO-USER's generally generated when a socket wasn't started in userland - Mail is, but
anything running through IP-Masq isn't, so a normal identd will get confused. I've
seen IP-Masq aware ones about, though.
Mail, incidentally, will get detected as either root (With sendmail) or
some-weird-qmail-user (With QMail).
Dave.
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