NAME
mdidentd - ident daemon that permits fake identd
SYNOPSIS
mdidentd [options] [identd] [identd options]
DESCRIPTION
Mdidentd is a special ident daemon that permits processes to set their own fake ident replies regardless of the userid they are running under. For normal ident to work, specify the the ident daemon to run, aswell as the options to pass to it.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
- -f
-
Stay in the foreground. Do not fork and go into the background.
- -k
-
Automatically delete fake ident requests after they have been replied to. Basically, mdidentd stores the fake ident requests in memory, and they remain there for 30 seconds until they are destroyed. With this option, they will still be destroyed after 30 seconds, but they can freed sooner if an ident request matching it is recieved. It is probably a good idea to use this.
- -u <uid>
-
Become this user after binding to port 113. Again, probably a good idea as well. The uid needs to be a numeric id, you can't use something like
- -h <number>
-
Set a limit on the number of fake idents that will be stored. This is basically to prevent abuse. By default it is set to 200.
- -r
-
This prevents people from setting fake idents that happen to be names of valid users on the system.
SEE ALSO
mdidentdconfig(1),
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Karl Soderstrom <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).