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# $Header: /usr/src/nidentd-2.0/RCS/BLURB,v 2.0 92/05/04 17:41:47 nigelm Exp $ This is an implementation of the RFC931 and currently unnumbered but in production RFC identity server (known in RFC931 as authd). This allows the id of a person making a connection from host A to host B to be determined by someone on host B (assuming that host A is running the identity daemon). So this can stop the spoofing of mail etc. Code is available to allow authentication of connections and modification of sendmail to trace who is actually sending mail (as opposed to who they say they are!). This package also includes a library that acts as an RFC 931 client. You don't need privileges to use the library, which should compile and run without trouble on any BSD-derived system. (authd is not so portable; although it works without changes under SunOS and Ultrix, it might not work on other systems. The package includes a couple of test programs.) The ident daemon does need root privaleges to install. It runs on NeXT and MIPs systems. Version 2.0a is different from 2.0 only in that a couple of documentation problems have been fixed (and that loads of files telling you this have been added)!!!!. The source code is the same! Nigel Metheringham <nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk>
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