Section: Maintenance Commands (8)Updated: 17 November 2005Local indexUp
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.