Topic: mirc ident

[Jeroen]

First my congratulations go out to the e-smith team for the great product!
I have a small problem when using mIRC. When I use mIRC and connect to a server, my ident isn't the one I set into mIRC. Instead of that it replaces the indent with user**. The ** part is the last two numbers of the internal ip number of the computer Im using. Any ideas how to correct this?

Thanks

Jeroen

[Peter Hollandare]

Jeroen,

you must open port 113 (ident) like this

ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 113 -R 192.168.1.x 113

Replace with your current IP adress + the x with what ever
adress you have on the computer you are irc'ing from.

This works for me, i hope it works for you to.

[Charlie Brady]

Jeroen wrote:

> I have a small problem when using mIRC. When I use mIRC and
> connect to a server, my ident isn't the one I set into mIRC.
> Instead of that it replaces the indent with user**. The **
> part is the last two numbers of the internal ip number of the
> computer Im using.

Is there anything wrong with that? No application should trust ident data - it is trivial to fake, so for all intents and purposes it should be considered random data.

> Any ideas how to correct this?

If you really need to change this, you should look in the documentation in /usr/doc/pidentd-2.8.5/, then change /etc/identd.masq. You should make the change by making a custom template - see http://www.e-smith.org/custom/ for instructions on making custom changes via the template mechanism.

Regards

Charlie