[NTLUG:Discuss] Setting up Identd for IRC on a RH 8.0 box

[David Ross]

On Wednesday 05 February 2003 01:49 am, you wrote:
> Ok guys, next question.  I was trying to get onto IRC using X-Chat (and
> KSirc) to get to a sawfish channel and kept getting booted off the
> servers saying my identd isn't working on my machine.
>
> The web pages I've seen seem to address other versions of the OS.  So,
> how do I configure my box to provide Identd for the IRC clients?  I have
> an xident.conf file, but it doesn't have any of the stuff in it the web
> sites mention and xinetd runs on startup.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne
>
>
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Wayne
	you can find ident daemons on freshmeat.net. Here's a snip from my 
xinetd.conf :
service auth
{
	socket_type	= stream
	wait		= no
	user		= nobody
	server		= /usr/sbin/in.identd
	server_args	= -l -e -o -q
}
Hope that helps
David