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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.8 5989 2002-12-12 23:07:49Z vinocur $

SEE ALSO
  nnrpd(8), readers.conf(5)

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