LibIdent is a small C library for interfacing with RFC 1413 Identification protocol servers, which are used for identifying users. LibIdent supports both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses transparently.
It is meant to be used by daemons to try to authenticate users using the Ident protocol. For this to work, users need to have an Ident server running on the system from which they are connected.
For more informations, please refer to the official manual page for LibIdent.
This library ('libident') is free software; unlimited permission is given to copy and/or redistribute it, with or without modifications, as long as authoring information is not misrepresented.
It is based on original work by Peter Eriksson with help from Pär Emanuelsson.
You can download the latest releases (sources only) from Freshmeat.
LibIdent is already available on the following platforms :
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