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What use is identd (113) for?

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What use is identd (113) for?

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Identd is used for administrators to provide userid details to remote systems who want to know who’s responsible for a given connection from your machine. Notably this includes mail, FTP and IRC servers, however, it can also be used to trace down which user in your local system is attacking a remote system.

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