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Name: pidentd - Network authentication server

Version: 2.7.4

Author(s): Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se>

   Peter Eriksson
   Lysator Academic Computer Society
   University of Linkoping, Sweden

   ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
   pen@lysator.liu.se

Ftp source: ftp.lysator.liu.se:/pub/ident/servers/

Description:

   identd is a server which implements the TCP/IP proposed standard IDENT
   user identification protocol as specified in the RFC 1413 document.

   identd operates by looking up specific TCP/IP connections and returning
   the user name of the process owning the connection.

   -- Quoted from manpage by Peter Eriksson in the pidentd-2.3 distribution


Advertised architectures:

   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             2.2beta.2
     Sun 2/120               SunOS 4.0.3             2.1beta.10
     Sun 3/480               SunOS 4.1.1_U1          2.2beta.2
     Sun 4/380               SunOS 5.2               2.2beta.2
     Sun SS1/41              SunOS 5.1               2.1beta.11
     HP 9000/375             HP-UX 7.0               2.1beta.10.1          (1)
     HP 9000/340             HP-UX 8.0               2.2beta.2
     HP 9000/720             HP-UX 8.07              2.1beta.10.1
     HP 9000/715             HP-UX 9.0               2.2beta.2
     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
     HP 9000/847             HP-UX 9.0               2.2beta.2
     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           2.2beta.1             (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)
     i486-PC                 Linux 0.99.13q          2.2beta.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.

   -- Quoted from README by Peter Eriksson in the pidentd-2.3 distribution

   Current distribution contains a directory of README files that give
   details for building pidentd on several architectures.
% ls READMEs
README.DES                README.next               README.sunos4
README.aix                README.next31-m68k-i486   README.sunos5
README.dynix3             README.ptx                README.ultrix
README.irix4              README.riscos4            README.unicos6
README.irix5              README.sunos3

Prerequisites: C compiler