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From Peter Koczan
Subject Re: ident authentication over tcp
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Msg-id 4544e0330912091318k5724867ib6598854d21b15f@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: ident authentication over tcp  (lst_hoe02@kwsoft.de)
Responses Re: ident authentication over tcp  (Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@opengroupware.us>)
Re: ident authentication over tcp  ("Milen A. Radev" <milen@radev.net>)
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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?

Thanks,
Peter

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