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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>
-