On Tue, Nov 18, 1997 at 01:03:21PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > What is /usr/sbin/identd, and why don't I have it installed? It seems > that it's trying to run an awful lot.
It's a protocol for passing usernames around. When you connect to a remote service, the services knows what host you come from but not your username there. It tries to make a connection back to your identd to find out. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [***** ] 59% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
