[SWLUG] irc question

[bascule]

hi dave,
thanks for the reply, i can't find any evidence of identd on my system, i 
assume its files go by that name? i'm looking at xchat too, ksirc does have a 
preference page for 'realname' but it still passes my local username to the 
irc server, without going into details while i mostly go places where i know 
the people or trust them, i do ocasionally pop into channels where this isn't 
true,
i am currently behind a version of mandrakes recently released 
multi-network-firewall but instead of a developing maturity overcoming me as 
i age i'm simply becoming more and more paraniod - anyone have any tinfoil?

welcome to the group!

bascule

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>
> I'm not massively familiar with ksirc, but the normal IRC daemons pick up
> your username (as opposed to your nickname) via two methods, in this order:
>
> 1) They use identd. (Which is generally regarded as a security risk, and
> pretty much useless anyway, so disable that if it's running and you don't
> *know* you need it.) 2) They use whatever ksirc told it to use. It's been a
> while since I mucked about with the IRC protocol, but I seem to recall you
> tell it the username and hostname to use anyway.
>
> Now, I now that in xchat, which is these days my IRC client of choice for
> no good reason, you can just specify all this information. I'd assume that
> it's all there in ksirc too... Although a quick skim of the manual doesn't
> tell me where it might be found.
>

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