ldistfp - remote identd fingerprinting tool The program will attempt to connect to the identd authentication service of the host `host' and will try to determine the identd version running. Then it will look up the response in a pre-made database and find the appropriate version line. This information can be mapped back to the distribution and it's version used on this host. Simple but effective, since the identd auth- entification service is used almost everywhere and most people don't know about it's version capabilities.