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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
       addresses on that always	replies	with default reply. Use	the -i flag to
       specify	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 restricted to	just the normal	A-Z, a-z, '.', '-' and '@'  range;  as
       some  broken  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.
       Possible	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
       protocol

       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 15.0		February, 2024			    WIDENTD(1)

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