Error: Notice - You need to install identd to use this server
reddit / irc

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Benben377 · 2021-01-26 22:48

So I finally managed to set up an IRC server on my Raspberry Pi 3B+
and it worked great. Then I tried to connect to it using an Android
client and it kept saying the error you see in the title. I thought I
could fix it by just disabling identd with a command. So I opened up
the IRC chat on my laptop and typed "/identd off", but it was still
not working. So I thought maybe I just need to reboot the raspberry
pi. But after rebooting now I get the error on both android and
windows... Is there anything I can do to get rid of this error? I read
something about port forwarding the 130 port, but I don't have a
router, the IRC is local only

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renegadereplicant · 2021-01-26 23:36

Check your ircd config. You are requiring the clients to have an
indentd.

Edit to clarify: there’s no such ircd « indentd off » command. You
disabled your windows client identd. Identd is a _client_ side thing,
not an ircd related daemon

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IBNash · 2021-01-27 01:39

You have not provided the actual details to enable someone here to
actually provide actionable assistance.

See [http://www.catb.org/\~esr/faqs/smart-
questions.html](http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html)

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SqualorTrawler · 2021-01-27 02:45

Go into your configuration file for the IRC server on your Raspberry
PI, and look for the **auth** section.

So first:

    sudo nano /etc/ircd-hybrid/ircd.conf

Then find the **auth** block.  I found this in the documentation file
reference.conf here:

https://github.com/ircd-hybrid/ircd-
hybrid/blob/master/doc/reference.conf

> need_ident    - require the user to have identd to connect
| ('+' prefix on /stats I)

Make sure there is no need_ident directive in there (comment it out or
delete it if there is.  You can comment it out by just adding a # at
the beginning of the line it is on.)

You will then need to restart the irc server like so:

    sudo /etc/init.d/ircd-hybrid restart

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Benben377 · 2021-01-27 18:35

That's exactly what I needed. Thank you very much

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