WIDENTD

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

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

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 'beastie', in honour of the BSD Daemon https://www.freebsd.org/art/

Likewise th -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).

SEE ALSO

identd(8)

EXTRNAL REFERENCE

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

BUGS

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

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

An identd server was needed needed an identd server. Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote one.