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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
	   readers.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>.

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

INN 2.8.0			  2022-09-11			      IDENT(8)

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