Re: ident authentication over tcp

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 15:18 -0600, Peter Koczan wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:25 PM,  <lst_hoe02@kwsoft.de> wrote:
> > This looks like you have no ident server running...
> >
> > I guess you must install it first in recent distros, as there is not much
> > use of ident anymore. So you have to search the packages for your OS.
>
> I found the packages. I'm still confused why local ident
> authentication works even without a running ident server, though. Does
> anyone know why that is?

Does "local" really use ident?  I always assumed local-ident was just
aliased to an NSS call.

Seriously, ident is dead, obsolete, and insecure tech.  You are best
just not using it.