nullidentd(8)

nullidentd8

A bare minimum identd server

Usage

nullidentd [uid]

Overview

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

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1–13

Author

nullidentd is written by Brian Young <[email protected]>

This manual page was written by John H. Robinson, IV <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

From nullidentd 1.0-6 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.