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ident(8)


NAME

   ident - nnrpd ident resolver

SYNOPSIS

   ident [-p port] [-t]

DESCRIPTION

   This program attempts to resolve usernames for nnrpd by using the ident
   protocol to query the remote host.  It contacts the remote host using
   either IPv4 or IPv6 depending on which protocol was used for the
   incoming NNTP connection.

OPTIONS

   -p port
       If this option is given, attempt to contact identd on the specified
       remote port (which can be a numeric or symbolic specification).
       Non-numeric values will be looked up using getservbyname(3).  The
       default value is the result of "getservbyname("ident")" if
       available, or port 113 otherwise.

   -t  If this option is given, the identity returned will never have a
       domain part.  That is, if the remote server returns a result
       containing an "@" character, ident truncates the response at the
       "@".  This is useful to allow the default-domain parameter in
       reaers.conf to override the domain supplied by the remote host
       (particularly if the supplied domain part is an unqualified local
       machine name rather than a full domain name).

EXAMPLE

   The following readers.conf(5) fragment tells nnrpd to trust ident
   information for hosts on a local network, but to replace the domain
   returned from the ident query:

       auth LAN {
           hosts: "192.168/16"
           res: "ident -t"
           default-domain: "internal.example.com"
       }

       access LAN {
           users: "*@internal.example.com"
           newsgroups: example.*
       }

   Access is granted to the example.* groups for all users on the local
   network whose machines respond to ident queries.

HISTORY

   This documentation was written by Jeffrey M. Vinocur <jeff@litech.org>.

   $Id: ident.pod 8200 2008-11-30 13:31:30Z iulius $

SEE ALSO

   nnrpd(8), readers.conf(5)



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