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pidentd-2.7.1.README Oct 1996 An NIHS FAT Installer.app package for the pidentd authentication deamon. This package was built with the -DINCLUDE_CRYPT -DINCLUDE_EXTENSIONS options. These options not very well documented (ie, I don't exactly know how to use them myself), but I included support for those people who know what they mean and how to use them. From the source README: This is a program that implements the RFC1413 identification server. It was very much inspired by Dan Bernstein's original 'authd' (but unlike that program doesn't use 'netstat' to get some of the information) It uses the kernel information directly. (And is due to that fact a lot faster). Dan has now written another version of the 'authd' daemon that uses his 'kstuff' to read the kernel information. Unlike that daemon, this will use only normally available kernel access functions (and is due to that more limited in the different machines it support). Please note that this daemon used to be called pauthd but has changed name to better reflect what it does (and to conform to the new RFC). INSTALLATION 1. install Use Installer to install the files into /usr/local 2. services Make sure the ident service is registered. Modify the file /etc/services to include the line: auth 113/tcp authentication tap ident The important part of the above is 'ident'. You'll need to update NetInfo services to reflect this update; execute the following as root (after updating the /etc/services file): niload services . < /etc/services 3. inetd Add a line to /etc/inetd.conf, which reads something like: ident stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/etc/in.identd in.identd Read the documentation for details about configuration options, but this setup will provide basic functionality. 4. Restart inetd (send the inetd process the HUP signal): kill -HUP <inetd.pid> Alternatively, restarting the machine also achieves this. 5. (Optional) For full functionality and testing purposes, the file /usr/local/bin/itest needs to be owned by the group kmem and setgid: chown root.kmem /usr/local/bin/itest chmod g+s /usr/local/bin/itest Read the documentation fully before doing this. CREDITS Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> Computer System Manager Universtity of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Mathematics and Statistics http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Source ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/ident/
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