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Change ident ? Now is a number ..how come ?

2005-01-05T22:28:22-04:00

it is possible

read identd's manpage

Statistics: Posted by demond — Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:28 pm

Change ident ? Now is a number ..how come ?

2005-01-05T17:55:43-04:00

ok ..now it shows my user instead of my uid .... now it works fine ..but ..
Can I change it to whatever I want ? or ...maybe...that's not possible?

Statistics: Posted by sys7em — Wed Jan 05, 2005 5:55 pm

Change ident ? Now is a number ..how come ?

2005-01-04T18:23:30-04:00

don't run identd with -n switch

Statistics: Posted by demond — Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:23 pm

Change ident ? Now is a number ..how come ?

2005-01-04T14:56:51-04:00

I have control ..because that's my linux home server ... So ...how should I fix it?

Statistics: Posted by sys7em — Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:56 pm

Change ident ? Now is a number ..how come ?

2005-01-04T14:14:09-04:00

change your shell login name. if its temporäry maybe your provider lost the UID <-> NAME assosiation or they changed identd to echo the UID instead of the NAME... anyhow, as long you dont have controll of identd or your shell login name you won't be able to change this.

Statistics: Posted by De Kus — Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:14 pm

Change ident ? Now is a number ..how come ?

2005-01-04T14:04:34-04:00

Well ...here's my issue...

When I make whois on the bot ... it comes out

Eggdrop is 1001@something.org

How can I change the ident to ...wahtever I want ?

Thanks in advance ...

Statistics: Posted by sys7em — Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:04 pm