nullidentd(8)

nullidentd(8)                                                    nullidentd(8)

NAME
       nullidentd - a bare minimum identd server

SYNOPSIS
       nullidentd [uid]

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents briefly the nullidentd command.  This manual
       page was written for the  Debian  GNU/Linux  distribution  because  the
       original program does not have a manual page.

       Nullidentd is intended to be a bare minimum identd server, suitable for
       a firewall or IP Masq/NAT gateway.

OPTIONS
       nullidentd takes only one optional argument,  the  username  to  answer
       with.   If  this  is  omitted,  nullidentd will reply with the username
       "foobar".  If the username is RANDOM, a random string is generated.

USAGE
       nullidentd is typically invoked from inetd. The following is a  typical
       inetd.conf example:
       auth stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/nullidentd nullidentd

AUTHOR
       nullidentd is written by Brian Young <bayoung@acm.org>

       This  manual  page  was  written  by  John  H. Robinson, IV <jaqque@de-
       bian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

                               January 24, 2001                  nullidentd(8)