identd

[khilari]

Hi guys, i was checking /etc/inetd.conf file. I was wondering what does identd do?
Thanks

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Do it occur to you to try a "man identd" before posting your question? You might then have asked a follow up question that was more pointed. In any event, unless you are running Serviceguard, there is a good chance that you can safely comment out the identd entry and issue an inetd -c command. Identd isn't required on most systems.

[Ivan Krastev]

Here is info about ident - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ident


regards,
ivan