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author | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2002-07-16 10:33:05 +0000 |
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committer | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2002-07-16 10:33:05 +0000 |
commit | f5c53ba733b3ff3f8cf21fa65bd50a6606a10eae (patch) | |
tree | a22506ef8579ce215082165a5b923eab49e2c1fe /libexec/identd | |
parent | 3c3d1baf1c50712cc4b4595b51cd48e6b8b476c0 (diff) |
by now, this README is way out of date
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diff --git a/libexec/identd/README b/libexec/identd/README deleted file mode 100644 index efc25ec7745..00000000000 --- a/libexec/identd/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,129 +0,0 @@ - pidentd - - ("Peter's Ident Daemon" or is it "Portable Ident Daemon"?) - - Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se> - - -This program is released into the public domain and can be used by -anyone who wants to. Vendors may include it into their distributions -if they want to without any restrictions. (Although it would be nice -to be notified by email if someone decides to do that, and/or a note -somewhere about who wrote this program. Like in the man-page or so.. :-) - -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). - -This daemon has been tested on the following machines/OS (please report -to me if you've tested a newer version, or if your machine/OS isn't among -the ones below): - -Machine Operating System Pidentd version ----------------------- ---------------------- -------------------------- - Sequent Balance Dynix 3.0.14 2.1beta.12 - Sequent Symmetry Dynix 3.1.2 2.1beta.3 - Sun 3/50 SunOS 3.5 2.1beta.8.1 (3) - Sun 386i SunOS 4.0.2 1.9beta - Sun 2/120 SunOS 4.0.3 2.1beta.10 - Sun 3/280 SunOS 4.1.1 2.1beta.12 - Sun 4/380 SunOS 4.1.3 2.1beta.12 - Sun SS1/41 SunOS 5.1 2.1beta.11 - HP 9000/375 HP-UX 7.0 2.1beta.10.1 (1) - HP 9000/300 HP-UX 8.0 2.1beta.12 - HP 9000/340 HP-UX 8.0 2.1beta.10.1 - HP 9000/360 HP-UX 8.0 2.1beta.10.1 - HP 9000/710 HP-UX 8.07 2.1beta.10.1 - HP 9000/720 HP-UX 8.07 2.1beta.10.1 - HP 9000/715 HP-UX 9.0 2.1beta.9.1 - HP 9000/827 HP-UX 8.02 2.1beta.8.1 - HP 9000/834 HP-UX 7.0 2.0beta.4 - HP 9000/835 HP-UX 8.00 2.1beta.10.1 - MIPS RISC/OS 4.5x 2.1beta.8.1 - DECstation 2100 Ultrix 4.2-96 2.1beta.2 (2) - DECstation 5000/133 Ultrix 4.2 2.1beta.9.1 (2) [?] - DEC VAXstation 2000 Ultrix-32 3.1 2.1beta.12 (2) [?] - DEC VAX vs3520 Ultrix 3.0 2.1beta.9.1 (2) [?] - DEC VAX 11/780 4.3BSD Reno 2.1beta.12 (2) - i486-PC UHC SVR4 2.0 2.0beta.4 (2) - i486-PC Dell SVR4 2.2 2.0beta.4 (2) - i486-PC ESIX SVR4 4.0.4 2.1beta.2 (2) - i486-PC 386BSD 0.1 2.1beta.3 (2) - Cray UNICOS 6.0.12 2.1beta.7 - NeXT NeXTSTEP 2.1 2.1beta.9.1 (3) - NeXT NeXTSTEP 3.0 2.1beta.9.1 (3) - Pyramid 90x dualPort OSx 4.1 2.1beta.12 - Silicon Graphics IRIX 4 2.1beta.10 - -Notes: - 1) HP-UX 7.0 doesn't support running streams based services from - Inetd with the "wait" option (and the "-w" flag to Pidentd). - - It also has problems with starting stuff as user "sys" from Inetd. - (It doesn't correctly set the group id to "sys") so I suggest you - either starts it as user "root" and use the "-u" and "-g" flags - to setuid and setgid itself to user "sys", group "sys", or do a - 'chgrp sys in.identd' and then a 'chmod g+s in.identd' and start - it as user "sys" from Inetd. - - 2) These systems also doesn't support running streams based - services from Inetd with the "wait" option. - - 3) See notes in the READMEs/README.<machine-type> specific files. - - -Please let me know if you find any bugs, or have ported it to other -machines (and care to share the changes with me and the world!). - -See the manual page for information about the various command line -options that are available. - -NOTE: One should NOT use the -d option when using it for normal use! - -If you intend to create or modify daemons that use the IDENT protocol -then you may wish to get the "libident" library that contains some -functions to implement the client side of this protocol. It is available -as "libident-*.tar.Z" in "pub/ident/libs" at "ftp.lysator.liu.se". - -There is a mailing list for users of the IDENT(RFC1413)/TAP protocol called -'ident-users@lysator.liu.se' that you may want to consider joining. -Send mail to the address 'ident-users-request@lysator.liu.se' to -join it. This list is intended for generic discussions on using this -protocol and it's associated tools. - -If you only want to receive news about new (non-alpha/beta) releases of -Pidentd then you can join the 'ident-announce@lysator.liu.se' mailing -list. Send mail to the address 'ident-announce-request@lysator.liu.se' to -join it. No discussions will take place on this list. - -I also run a small mailing list for people who wants to act as testers -of new alpha/beta-versions of Pidentd. If you wish to join, please send -mail to the address 'pidentd-testers-request@lysator.liu.se'. (I can always -use more testers, so don't hesitate :-) - -It's a human (namely me :-) that reads the letters sent to *-request. -Please include the full email address to which to wish to have the -letters sent. - -I'm grateful for success/failure stories about installing/compiling this -daemon... - -Information of interrest: - - 1. Machine and operating system type and version. - 2. Command line flags. - 3. Inetd.conf configuration. - 4. Did it work, or not. And if not - what did it report to the - syslog file? (You'll have to add the "-l" option and probably - reconfigure your Syslogd). If you use the "-d" option then - you can see a verbose error if you Telnet into it directly and - send it a query manually. (See the INSTALL file for more information). - -/Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se>, 5 April 1993 |