IDENT(8) InterNetNews Documentation IDENT(8)NAMEident - nnrpd ident resolver
SYNOPSISident [-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 incom‐
ing 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 avail‐
able, 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 con‐
taining 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.8 5989 2002-12-12 23:07:49Z vinocur $
SEE ALSOnnrpd(8), readers.conf(5)INN 2.4.0 2002-12-12 IDENT(8)