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sys7em
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Posts: 3 Joined: Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:59 pm
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by sys7em » Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:04 pm
Well ...here's my issue...
When I make whois on the bot ... it comes out
Eggdrop is
1001@something.org
How can I change the ident to ...wahtever I want ?
Thanks in advance ...
De Kus
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Posts: 1361 Joined: Sun Dec 15, 2002 11:41 am
Location: Germany
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by De Kus » Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:14 pm
change your shell login name. if its temporäry maybe your provider lost the UID <-> NAME assosiation or they changed identd to echo the UID instead of the NAME... anyhow, as long you dont have controll of identd or your shell login name you won't be able to change this.
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sys7em
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Posts: 3 Joined: Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:59 pm
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by sys7em » Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:56 pm
I have control ..because that's my linux home server ... So ...how should I fix it?
demond
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by demond » Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:23 pm
don't run identd with -n switch
sys7em
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by sys7em » Wed Jan 05, 2005 5:55 pm
ok ..now it shows my user instead of my uid .... now it works fine ..but ..
Can I change it to whatever I want ? or ...maybe...that's not possible?
demond
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by demond » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:28 pm
it is possible
read identd's manpage