NAME
midentd - IDENT protocol server with masquerading support
SYNOPSIS
midentd [options]
DESCRIPTION
midentd is a server which implements the TCP/IP proposed standard IDENT
user identification protocol as specified in the RFC 1413 document,
with special support for masquerading firewalls.
A regular identd on a masquerading firewall will return an error for
requests concerning a masqueraded connection. Midentd solves this
problem. When a request comes in, it checks it in /proc/net/tcp first,
just like any regular identd will do. If it can’t find the connection
there, it looks in /proc/net/ip_conntrack and tries to find it there.
If it does, it will connect to the client that owns the connection and
ask the midentd there which user owns that connection. If midentd isn’t
running on the client, it will try a normal ident request.
When the client that initiated the masqueraded connection doesn’t run
an identd or the connection times out, a faked reply will be generated.
OPTIONS
-u <username/uid>
Tries to change the UID under which midentd is running. When used
as standalone, this is a must.
-f Always fake replies, return a random name to every request.
HOMEPAGE
http://panorama.sth.ac.at/midentd/
AUTHOR
Peter Surda <shurdeek@panorama.sth.ac.at> and Peter van Dijk
<peter@adataloss.nl>. This manual page was originally written by Thijs
Kinkhorst <thijs@kinkhorst.com>, for the Debian system (but may be used
by others).
17 November 2005 midentd(8)