Macintosh Ident

As with PC's there are a number of clients for Apple Macintosh systems. Some of these have built-in Ident servers, some don't.

In This Guide:

1 IrcLE
2 Homer
3 MacBitchX
4 MacIRC
5 Snak
6 Stand Alone Ident Daemons
- 6.1 DAEMON
- 6.2 Enable Identd in Mac OS X 10.3

IrcLE

IrcLE has a built-in ident daemon which you can configure from within the client. No other software is needed. For details, see the IrcLE help files or follow this link :

http://www.ircle.com/related.shtml

Homer

As far as we can tell, Homer does not have built-in support for ident. As such you will need to use an external ident utility to connect to DareNET or switch to another IRC client which does support ident.

MacBitchX

Again, as best we can tell this does not have a built-in ident daemon. You will need an external ident utility to connect to DareNET using this program.

MacIRC

We beleive that this client DOES have an inbuilt ident daemon, however we have been unable to locate any documentation for it.

Snak

With thanks to the Author of Snak, the following steps should resolve any ident issues experienced while using this client.

Mac OS9

Snak uses a built-in ident server. It is always active and no configuration is necessary.

Mac OS X 10.2

An ident server is installed by default, but it must be enabled using the tool that comes with Snak in the "Enable Ident for OS X" folder.

Mac OS X 10.3

No ident server is installed by default but Snak comes with a tool to install one. No configuration is necessary when ident is enabled and installed, but if you use a wireless connection it must be configured to let ident work correctly.

See the Snak manual for further details

Stand Alone Ident Daemons

While we provide these links as a service to our users, DareNET cannot offer supoort with the
installation or configuration of these packages. All requests for support must be directed to
the appropriate vendor.

The following programs are stand-alone utilites that provide Ident support for those using a client which does not have an inbulit ident server.

DAEMON

ftp://ftp.stairways.com/stairways/unsupported/daemon-12.sit.bin

This is an apparently unsupported set of freeware daemons for the MAC platform. It provides Ident, Finger, Daytime & Whois support.

Installation Instructions

Download the daemon to your machine
Double click to start it BEFORE trying to connect to DareNET.
Once started, the daemon will remain running untill you restart your computer or stop it with a utility such as process watcher

Documentation

http://www.ualberta.ca/HELP/modem/daemondocs.html

Enable Identd in Mac OS X 10.3

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2003110513201777