HP-UX Reference (11i v2 04/09) - 1M System Administration Commands A-M (vol 3)

identd(1M) identd(1M)

give the error HIDDEN-USER instead of the normal

USERID response.

-m The -m ﬂag makes identd use a mode of operation that will allow multiple requests to be

processed per session. Each request is speciﬁed one per line and the responses will be returned

one per line. The connection will not be closed until the connecting part closes its end of the

line. Please note that this mode violates the protocol speciﬁcation as it currently stands .

-d The -d ﬂag enables some debugging code that normally should NOT be enabled since that

breaks the protocol and may reveal information that should not be available to outsiders.

INSTALLATION

identd is invoked either by the internet server (see inetd(1M)) for requests to connect to the IDENT

port as indicated by the

/etc/services

ﬁle (see services (4)) when using the

-w or -i modes of opera-

tion or started manually by using the

-b mode of operation.

WARNINGS

The options

-w and -t are currently not supported on HP-UX.

EXAMPLES

Since the server is located in

/usr/lbin/identd

, you can put either:

ident stream tcp6 wait bin /usr/lbin/identd identd -w -t120

or:

ident stream tcp6 nowait bin /usr/lbin/identd identd -i

into the /etc/inetd.conf

ﬁle.

To start it using the unsupported

-b mode of operation, you can put a line like this into the

/sbin/init.d/sendmail

ﬁle under the ’start’ section:

/usr/lbin/identd -b -u2 -g2

This will cause identd to be started as daemon whenever sendmail is running. It will run in the back-

ground as user 2, group 2 (user bin, group bin).