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WIDENTD(1)		     General Commands Manual		      WIDENTD(1)

WIDENTD
     widentd -- answers on the auth(113) port according to rfc 1413 with a fixed
     reply.

SYNOPSIS
     [-v] [-u -userid] [-o -system-name] [-s -service] [-i -address]

DESCRIPTION
     The  deamon listens on either the specified address or on all interface ad-
     dresses on that always replies with default reply. Use the -i flag to spec-
     ify a diffrent address to bind to; and use the -s flag to	sepcify  another
     port.

     All errors are sent to syslog unless the -v flag is set. In which case, the
     deamon  will  not	fork,  and  will print verbosely on stdout. Errors go to
     stderr.

     The username returned can be set with the -u flag; although rfc 1413 allows
     for a wide range of characters, and  charsets,  this  applications  is  re-
     stricted  to just the normal A-Z, a-z, '.', '-' and '@' range; as some bro-
     ken IRC servers barf on anything more complex. The default is 'beastie', in
     honour of the BSD Daemon https://www.freebsd.org/art/

     Likewise th -o flag sets the operating system; the default is OTHER. Possi-
     ble values are UNIX, or one of the SYSTEM NAMES  as  registered  with  IANA
     (See rfc1340 or one it's successors).

SEE ALSO
     identd(8)

EXTRNAL REFERENCE
     RFC  1413 / http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1413.txt identification proto-
     col

     RFC 1340 / http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1340.txt  IANA  assigned  names
     and numbers

BUGS
     This  deamon  is  propably  not  very  compliant  with RFC 1413; it ignores
     charsets, it quite intentionally lies, and so on. Fixes appreciated.  Pp

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
     An identd server was needed needed an identd server. Dirk-Willem van  Gulik
     wrote one.

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly	 February, 2024 		      WIDENTD(1)

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