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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: What uses identd
Date: 7 May 1995 23:48:27 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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root@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian) wrote:
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] I am running BSD/OS 2.0.
] 
] I was wondering what utilities use the identd server, which returns the
] remote user name using a tcp/ip port.

Major one is TCPWrappers to let you reject everyone but specific
users from a machine from connecting to specific services.

                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@cs.weber.edu
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