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WIDENTD(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual WIDENTD(1)

widentd
answers on the auth(113) port according to rfc 1413 with a fixed reply.

widentd [-v] [-u -userid] [-o -system-name] [-s -service] [-i -address]

The widentd deamon listens on either the specified address or on all interface addresses on that always replies with default reply. Use the -i flag to specify a diffrent address to bind to; and use the -s flag to sepcify another port.

All errors are sent to syslog unless the -v flag is set. In which case, the deamon will not fork, and will print verbosely on stdout. Errors go to stderr.

The username returned can be set with the -u flag; although rfc 1413 allows for a wide range of characters, and charsets, this applications is restricted to just the normal A-Z, a-z, '.', '-' and '@' range; as some broken IRC servers barf on anything more complex. The default is 'chuck', in honour of http://www.webweaving.org/chuck/

Likewise the -o flag sets the operating system; the default is OTHER. Possible values are UNIX, or one of the SYSTEM NAMES as registered with IANA (See rfc1340 or one it's successors).

identd(8)

RFC 1413 / http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1413.txt identification protocol

RFC 1340 / http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1340.txt IANA assigned names and numbers

This deamon is propably not very compliant with RFC 1413; it ignores charsets, it quite intentionally lies, and so on. Fixes appreciated. Pp

Chuck (http://www.webweaving.org/chuck) needed an identd server. Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote one for him.
February, 2015 FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE

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