Ident is a protcol that lets you quirey a machine for some info so long
as it is running an ident demon (identd in the case of Linux). Some mail
servers will quirey your machine using ident before they will accept
mail from you. This is not that common but does happen and can be a real
headache to work out why your mail is rejected unless you know about
this. Also some IRC servers check you out with ident. It is considered
by many people to be a security risk and so it is often advised that it
should be disabled, just remeber if something rejects your mail that
might be why.
Pat
> identd is an authentication mechanism used primarily by sendmail I believe.
> It is normally started out of inetd, but I'm a little confused about why
> it's showing up so many times in your process table - unless you were
> sending/receiving mail at the time and that might explain it. It's mostly
> a matter of preference whether you run it or not - I normally don't,
> someone else might be able to explain why it's important that you do. In
> any case, you'll need to edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment that line out if
> you want to disable it. You may want to comment any other unwanted
> services out as well. Then you'll need to re-start inetd one of two ways:
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