Ident In Linux

[Jazzphone]

Well I go On IRC A lot and I know DALNet requires Ident. I Try to use xChat to get on IRC and it seems its enabled. I also have xIdent starting up also. But no matter what I do it still dosent work. If you have gotten Ident to work on Linux. Please help me. Thank You.

[Pras]

First, you should be looking for identd, not just ident. ident controls some system services, identd is the auth daemon. Make sure that this is what you have started.

If you are positive you've started identd, ensure that your firewall does not block port 113 traffic.

[Jazzphone]

Well how do I do It. I need to know the Easiest Way. =P

[Pras]

Ok, not sure in Mandrake (I think it uses the command chkconfig) but find the startup scripts (usually /etc/rc.d/rc5.d) folder. In there, look for the script that starts identd and then type ./identd start (as root).

I believe you can also use the linuxconf tool to determine which services are started. I recommend this first - try the console method later.

[Craig McPherson]

Pras, you're a bit confused. The thing that "controls some system services" is inetd not identd. inetd stands for Internet Daemon. identd stands for Ident Daemon. ident is the Identity Protocol. identd is the server (daemon) that implements the ident protocol.

Clear enough?

It's kind of silly to run an ident daemon standalone. It's best to run it from the Superserver. Because it's not going to be accessed terribly often, there's no need to have your identd running all the time -- it's best to run identd from inetd or xinetd.

Man, that's a tongue-twister.

Anyway, choose an identd (they're all about the same), and set it to run from your superserver.

[Pras]

My bad Craig - you're right. A typo - I was thinking ident while talking about inetd.