in.identtestd command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

in.identtestd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: in.identtestd: command not found

Solutions to in.identtestd: command not found

How To Fix in.identtestd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu in.identtestd is provided by libident package.

libident is:

This is a small library to interface to the Ident protocol server; “ident” enables a remote host to find out who’s the owner of a network connection.

/usr/sbin/in.identtestd is a small daemon (to be started from inetd) that does an ident lookup on you if you telnet into it. Can be used to verify that your Ident server is working correctly.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install libident

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install libident.

sudo apt -y install libident

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install libident

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix in.identtestd command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.