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NAME

6       ident - nnrpd ident resolver
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SYNOPSIS

9       ident [-p port] [-t]
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DESCRIPTION

12       This program attempts to resolve usernames for nnrpd by using the ident
13       protocol to query the remote host.  It contacts the remote host using
14       either IPv4 or IPv6 depending on which protocol was used for the incom‐
15       ing NNTP connection.
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OPTIONS

18       -p port
19           If this option is given, attempt to contact identd on the specified
20           remote port (which can be a numeric or symbolic specification).
21           Non-numeric values will be looked up using getservbyname(3).  The
22           default value is the result of "getservbyname("ident")" if avail‐
23           able, or port 113 otherwise.
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25       -t  If this option is given, the identity returned will never have a
26           domain part.  That is, if the remote server returns a result con‐
27           taining an "@" character, ident truncates the response at the "@".
28           This is useful to allow the default-domain parameter in reaers.conf
29           to override the domain supplied by the remote host (particularly if
30           the supplied domain part is an unqualified local machine name
31           rather than a full domain name).
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EXAMPLE

34       The following readers.conf(5) fragment tells nnrpd to trust ident
35       information for hosts on a local network, but to replace the domain
36       returned from the ident query:
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38           auth LAN {
39               hosts: "192.168/16"
40               res: "ident -t"
41               default-domain: "internal.example.com"
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44           access LAN {
45               users: "*@internal.example.com"
46               newsgroups: example.*
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49       Access is granted to the example.* groups for all users on the local
50       network whose machines respond to ident queries.
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HISTORY

53       This documentation was written by Jeffrey M. Vinocur <jeff@litech.org>.
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55       $Id: ident.8 5989 2002-12-12 23:07:49Z vinocur $
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SEE ALSO

58       nnrpd(8), readers.conf(5)
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