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$NetBSD: README,v 1.3 1998/07/15 07:31:55 msaitoh Exp $
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Pidentd, version 2
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("Peter's Ident Daemon" or is it "Portable Ident Daemon"?)
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Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se>
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LICENSE/LEGALESE
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This program is released into the public domain and can be used by
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anyone who wants to. Vendors may include it into their distributions
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if they want to without any restrictions. (Although it would be nice
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to be notified by email if someone decides to do that, and/or a note
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somewhere about who wrote this program. Like in the man-page or so.. :-)
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DESCRIPTION
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This is a program that implements the RFC1413 identification server. It
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was very much inspired by Dan Bernstein's original 'authd' (but unlike
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that program doesn't use 'netstat' to get some of the information) It
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uses the kernel information directly. (And is due to that fact a lot
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faster). Dan has now written another version of the 'authd' daemon that
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uses his 'kstuff' to read the kernel information. Unlike that daemon,
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this will use only normally available kernel access functions (and is due
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to that more limited in the different machines it support). Please note
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that this daemon used to be called pauthd but has changed name to better
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reflect what it does (and to conform to the new RFC).
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LATEST VERSIONS
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The latest version of Pidentd can always be FTP'd from:
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ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/ident/servers
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Some of the mirrors (that I know of):
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ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/ident/servers
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ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/ident/servers
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COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
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See the manual page for information about the various command line
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options that are available.
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NOTE: One should NOT use the -d option when using it for normal use!
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CLIENT LIBRARIES
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If you intend to create or modify daemons that use the IDENT protocol
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then you may wish to get the "libident" library that contains some
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functions to implement the client side of this protocol. It is available
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as "libident-*.tar.Z" in "pub/ident/libs" at "ftp.lysator.liu.se".
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MAILING LISTS
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There is a mailing list for users of the IDENT(RFC1413)/TAP protocol called
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'ident-users@lysator.liu.se' that you may want to consider joining.
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Send mail to the address 'ident-users-request@lysator.liu.se' to
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join it. This list is intended for generic discussions on using this
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protocol and it's associated tools.
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If you only want to receive news about new (non-alpha/beta) releases of
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Pidentd then you can join the 'ident-announce@lysator.liu.se' mailing
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list. Send mail to the address 'ident-announce-request@lysator.liu.se' to
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join it. No discussions will take place on this list.
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I also run a small mailing list for people who wants to act as testers
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of new alpha/beta-versions of Pidentd. If you wish to join, please send
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mail to the address 'pidentd-testers-request@lysator.liu.se'. (I can always
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use more testers, so don't hesitate :-)
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INFORMATION REQUEST
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Please let me know if you find any bugs, or have ported it to other
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machines (and care to share the changes with me and the world!).
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Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se>, 11 Aug 1996
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