On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 04:10:02PM +1000, Bernhard L?der wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this might be a silly question, but what is identd used for? Does it need to
> run? What for?
> Bernhard L?der
Rather than try to explain it myself, I'll just quote part of RFC 1413:
1. INTRODUCTION
The Identification Protocol (a.k.a., "ident", a.k.a., "the Ident
Protocol") provides a means to determine the identity of a user of a
particular TCP connection. Given a TCP port number pair, it returns
a character string which identifies the owner of that connection on
the server's system.
I hope this clears it up. AFAIK, it's not often used anymore, except by
some IRC services.
-Andrew.
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