From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 23 12:03:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00930 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:03:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00757 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:03:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA24505; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:43:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:43:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: justin cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hiya In-Reply-To: <34EEADCE.9FED820@ozramp.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, justin wrote: > i was wondering how do i change my ident Wen you say `ident', do you mean username? If you want to change your username contact your ISP (ozramp). > like do u no were i could get a ident spoofer or no how to get rid of > the ~ in the ident An `ident spoofer' would be bad. Don't go there if you want to keep the world happy. The ~X in UNIX represents user X, so you can give user X's home directory without needing to know details. > i tried that pident but it didn't quite works pidentd is a different monster entirely. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message