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IDENT(8)		  InterNetNews Documentation		      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)

INN 2.5.3			  2009-05-21			      IDENT(8)
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