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[edit] The importance of running identd

Without identd :

• your users will not be able to connect to many irc networks, as many of them ban users without identd
• your mail may be rejected by some mail servers which require identd
• you won't have logs of IRC access so that you can track IRC abusers
• irc operators on some big networks may ban your entire IP range to get rid of an abuser, instead of reporting them to you, becuase without identd, there is no way for the ircop to know which user of yours broke the rules, so to keep the user away they have to ban ALL your users!

Suffice it to say, there are very good reasons for using a truthful identd. Installing identd is pretty easy, you have a choice between at least two packages (pidentd, and oidentd). A secure config for each will be described below. Of course, you still have to make sure that your identd runs all the time, but these example configs should help you set up the identd securely.

[edit] Secure /etc/oidentd.conf for oidentd

default {
	default {
		deny spoof
		deny spoof_all
		deny spoof_privport
		deny random_numeric
		deny numeric
		deny random
		deny hide
	}
}

[edit] Secure /etc/identd.conf for pidentd

(todo : add an equivilant config for pidentd)