Identd/auth

Identd/auth definition - hacker
A service on UNIX that can be used to identify a TCP connection owner. Though it was first developed to be used as an authentication mechanism, today it is used primarily to log who does what activities.

See Also: Authentication; Log; TCP/IP or Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol; UNIX.

Graham, R. Hacking Lexicon. [Online, 2001.] Robert Graham Website. http://www.linuxsecurity.com/resource_files/documentation/hacking-dict.html.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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