enabling IDENT
 

How do I enable IDENT in the default IRC programs in Mandrake 8.0 (kvirc)?

I really have no clue...
 

Sorry, keep trying you will get it.

I'm not sure about mandrake, but you must be used to mIRC for Windows. Linux IRC clients don't behave like windows. When an identd request comes to a linux box, it can only get answered by something listening on the IdentD port(113). Mandrake *should* come with a daemon that automatically gives a responce, but of course *should* doesn't mean *does*. Bear in mind as well that you MUST be using a username on IRC that is the SAME as one on your system(root won't work on 99.9% of IRC servers). For instance, I have a username:

xyzuser

on my Linux box, I must be logged in as xyzuser, and running IRC as xyzuser in order for the system identd to reply with a valid responce.

Hope this helps, if you think your system does not have a daemon running, I'd look into oidentd(it's on freshmeat.net). This is the best I've used and it even masquerades linux->Windows requests.

J