On Mon, 16 Oct 1995, Steven R. Nevid wrote: > Hello I was wondering if it is at all possible for a circle mud to > recieve not only the IP address of the person connected but also the > username of the person connected. This would just make it unecessary to > have to finger a site and see whom is doing a telnet to the mud address. > This would mainly be used for being able to have the email addr of the > perpotrator (spelling on that one) who messes around. > I have heard in passing that this had been done, but I am not sure if it > has been done on a circle mud.. Thanks. if your talking about ident (RFC-1413 or somethin like that), it basically finds a file descriptor, then telnets back to the host which teh file descriptor is connected from, then if the machine has an identd installed as well, it says well i got this person on file descriptor ## what is his login name/number, what system are you runnig, and a few other stupid questiosn, this then can be stored in a variable to be used as the persons login name...
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