So you are saying, if I do not need user authentication I do not need it?
Bernhard Luder
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Howard Lowndes
Sent: Sunday, 1 July 2001 17:12
To: Andrew Bennetts
Cc: Bernhard L?der; SLUG user group
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Identd - silly question
Sendmail also appears to try to use it, but doesn't fuss if it is not
available.
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On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> 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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