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Identd/auth - technical definition
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.