identd.tproj/README

   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