3 ident - nnrpd ident resolver
7 B<ident> [B<-p> I<port>] [B<-t>]
11 This program attempts to resolve usernames for B<nnrpd> by using the
12 ident protocol to query the remote host. It contacts the remote host
13 using either IPv4 or IPv6 depending on which protocol was used for the
14 incoming NNTP connection.
22 If this option is given, attempt to contact identd on the specified
23 remote port (which can be a numeric or symbolic specification).
24 Non-numeric values will be looked up using getservbyname(3). The
25 default value is the result of C<getservbyname("ident")> if available,
26 or port 113 otherwise.
30 If this option is given, the identity returned will never have a domain
31 part. That is, if the remote server returns a result containing an C<@>
32 character, B<ident> truncates the response at the C<@>. This is useful
33 to allow the I<default-domain> parameter in F<reaers.conf> to override
34 the domain supplied by the remote host (particularly if the supplied
35 domain part is an unqualified local machine name rather than a full
42 The following readers.conf(5) fragment tells nnrpd to trust ident
43 information for hosts on a local network, but to replace the domain
44 returned from the ident query:
49 default-domain: "internal.example.com"
53 users: "*@internal.example.com"
57 Access is granted to the example.* groups for all users on the local
58 network whose machines respond to ident queries.
62 This documentation was written by Jeffrey M. Vinocur <jeff@litech.org>.
64 $Id: ident.pod 5988 2002-12-12 23:02:14Z vinocur $
68 nnrpd(8), readers.conf(5)