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1 | pidentd |
| 2 | ||
| 3 | ("Peter's Ident Daemon" or is it "Portable Ident Daemon"?) | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se> | |
| 6 | ||
| 7 | ||
| 8 | This program is released into the public domain and can be used by | |
| 9 | anyone who wants to. Vendors may include it into their distributions | |
| 10 | if they want to without any restrictions. (Although it would be nice | |
| 11 | to be notified by email if someone decides to do that, and/or a note | |
| 12 | somewhere about who wrote this program. Like in the man-page or so.. :-) | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | This is a program that implements the RFC1413 identification server. It | |
| 15 | was very much inspired by Dan Bernstein's original 'authd' (but unlike | |
| 16 | that program doesn't use 'netstat' to get some of the information) It | |
| 17 | uses the kernel information directly. (And is due to that fact a lot | |
| 18 | faster). Dan has now written another version of the 'authd' daemon that | |
| 19 | uses his 'kstuff' to read the kernel information. Unlike that daemon, | |
| 20 | this will use only normally available kernel access functions (and is due | |
| 21 | to that more limited in the different machines it support). Please note | |
| 22 | that this daemon used to be called pauthd but has changed name to better | |
| 23 | reflect what it does (and to conform to the new RFC). | |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | This daemon has been tested on the following machines/OS (please report | |
| 26 | to me if you've tested a newer version, or if your machine/OS isn't among | |
| 27 | the ones below): | |
| 28 | ||
| 29 | Machine Operating System Pidentd version | |
| 30 | ---------------------- ---------------------- -------------------------- | |
| 31 | Sequent Balance Dynix 3.0.14 2.1beta.12 | |
| 32 | Sequent Symmetry Dynix 3.1.2 2.1beta.3 | |
| 33 | Sun 3/50 SunOS 3.5 2.1beta.8.1 (3) | |
| 34 | Sun 386i SunOS 4.0.2 1.9beta | |
| 35 | Sun 2/120 SunOS 4.0.3 2.1beta.10 | |
| 36 | Sun 3/280 SunOS 4.1.1 2.1beta.12 | |
| 37 | Sun 4/380 SunOS 4.1.3 2.1beta.12 | |
| 38 | Sun SS1/41 SunOS 5.1 2.1beta.11 | |
| 39 | HP 9000/375 HP-UX 7.0 2.1beta.10.1 (1) | |
| 40 | HP 9000/300 HP-UX 8.0 2.1beta.12 | |
| 41 | HP 9000/340 HP-UX 8.0 2.1beta.10.1 | |
| 42 | HP 9000/360 HP-UX 8.0 2.1beta.10.1 | |
| 43 | HP 9000/710 HP-UX 8.07 2.1beta.10.1 | |
| 44 | HP 9000/720 HP-UX 8.07 2.1beta.10.1 | |
| 45 | HP 9000/715 HP-UX 9.0 2.1beta.9.1 | |
| 46 | HP 9000/827 HP-UX 8.02 2.1beta.8.1 | |
| 47 | HP 9000/834 HP-UX 7.0 2.0beta.4 | |
| 48 | HP 9000/835 HP-UX 8.00 2.1beta.10.1 | |
| 49 | MIPS RISC/OS 4.5x 2.1beta.8.1 | |
| 50 | DECstation 2100 Ultrix 4.2-96 2.1beta.2 (2) | |
| 51 | DECstation 5000/133 Ultrix 4.2 2.1beta.9.1 (2) [?] | |
| 52 | DEC VAXstation 2000 Ultrix-32 3.1 2.1beta.12 (2) [?] | |
| 53 | DEC VAX vs3520 Ultrix 3.0 2.1beta.9.1 (2) [?] | |
| 54 | DEC VAX 11/780 4.3BSD Reno 2.1beta.12 (2) | |
| 55 | i486-PC UHC SVR4 2.0 2.0beta.4 (2) | |
| 56 | i486-PC Dell SVR4 2.2 2.0beta.4 (2) | |
| 57 | i486-PC ESIX SVR4 4.0.4 2.1beta.2 (2) | |
| 58 | i486-PC 386BSD 0.1 2.1beta.3 (2) | |
| 59 | Cray UNICOS 6.0.12 2.1beta.7 | |
| 60 | NeXT NeXTSTEP 2.1 2.1beta.9.1 (3) | |
| 61 | NeXT NeXTSTEP 3.0 2.1beta.9.1 (3) | |
| 62 | Pyramid 90x dualPort OSx 4.1 2.1beta.12 | |
| 63 | Silicon Graphics IRIX 4 2.1beta.10 | |
| 64 | ||
| 65 | Notes: | |
| 66 | 1) HP-UX 7.0 doesn't support running streams based services from | |
| 67 | Inetd with the "wait" option (and the "-w" flag to Pidentd). | |
| 68 | ||
| 69 | It also has problems with starting stuff as user "sys" from Inetd. | |
| 70 | (It doesn't correctly set the group id to "sys") so I suggest you | |
| 71 | either starts it as user "root" and use the "-u" and "-g" flags | |
| 72 | to setuid and setgid itself to user "sys", group "sys", or do a | |
| 73 | 'chgrp sys in.identd' and then a 'chmod g+s in.identd' and start | |
| 74 | it as user "sys" from Inetd. | |
| 75 | ||
| 76 | 2) These systems also doesn't support running streams based | |
| 77 | services from Inetd with the "wait" option. | |
| 78 | ||
| 79 | 3) See notes in the READMEs/README.<machine-type> specific files. | |
| 80 | ||
| 81 | ||
| 82 | Please let me know if you find any bugs, or have ported it to other | |
| 83 | machines (and care to share the changes with me and the world!). | |
| 84 | ||
| 85 | See the manual page for information about the various command line | |
| 86 | options that are available. | |
| 87 | ||
| 88 | NOTE: One should NOT use the -d option when using it for normal use! | |
| 89 | ||
| 90 | If you intend to create or modify daemons that use the IDENT protocol | |
| 91 | then you may wish to get the "libident" library that contains some | |
| 92 | functions to implement the client side of this protocol. It is available | |
| 93 | as "libident-*.tar.Z" in "pub/ident/libs" at "ftp.lysator.liu.se". | |
| 94 | ||
| 95 | There is a mailing list for users of the IDENT(RFC1413)/TAP protocol called | |
| 96 | 'ident-users@lysator.liu.se' that you may want to consider joining. | |
| 97 | Send mail to the address 'ident-users-request@lysator.liu.se' to | |
| 98 | join it. This list is intended for generic discussions on using this | |
| 99 | protocol and it's associated tools. | |
| 100 | ||
| 101 | If you only want to receive news about new (non-alpha/beta) releases of | |
| 102 | Pidentd then you can join the 'ident-announce@lysator.liu.se' mailing | |
| 103 | list. Send mail to the address 'ident-announce-request@lysator.liu.se' to | |
| 104 | join it. No discussions will take place on this list. | |
| 105 | ||
| 106 | I also run a small mailing list for people who wants to act as testers | |
| 107 | of new alpha/beta-versions of Pidentd. If you wish to join, please send | |
| 108 | mail to the address 'pidentd-testers-request@lysator.liu.se'. (I can always | |
| 109 | use more testers, so don't hesitate :-) | |
| 110 | ||
| 111 | It's a human (namely me :-) that reads the letters sent to *-request. | |
| 112 | Please include the full email address to which to wish to have the | |
| 113 | letters sent. | |
| 114 | ||
| 115 | I'm grateful for success/failure stories about installing/compiling this | |
| 116 | daemon... | |
| 117 | ||
| 118 | Information of interrest: | |
| 119 | ||
| 120 | 1. Machine and operating system type and version. | |
| 121 | 2. Command line flags. | |
| 122 | 3. Inetd.conf configuration. | |
| 123 | 4. Did it work, or not. And if not - what did it report to the | |
| 124 | syslog file? (You'll have to add the "-l" option and probably | |
| 125 | reconfigure your Syslogd). If you use the "-d" option then | |
| 126 | you can see a verbose error if you Telnet into it directly and | |
| 127 | send it a query manually. (See the INSTALL file for more information). | |
| 128 | ||
| 129 | /Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se>, 5 April 1993 |