On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurjeet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As you can see, if I use the machine's interface or unix sockets, it either > asks for password or lets me in. But when I use localhost, it correctly uses > 127.0.... line for authentication, but does not let me in!!! > > Is this not supposed to work? Could it be because I might not be having an > ident server running on my box? How do I determine if I have an ident server > running? It's almost certain that that's the problem. ident is configured off by default on most systems. Whether it's a separate daemon or invoked through inetd/xinetd depends on the distribution. -Doug
