ident2(8)

📦 version 1.07, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

hey bestie 💖 welcome to ident2(8), straight from the System Manager's Manual. this page is all about an advanced ident daemon, and it's giving main character energy.

🎀 NAME 🎀

ident2 — An advanced ident daemon

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ident2 [options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

ident2 is an advanced ident daemon, bestie. it can run as an inetd service or on its own. it's got features like user defined and random replies, extensive logging, and full administrative control. no cap. 💅

💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay so the program follows the usual GNU syntax command-line unless it is unsupported on your system. GNU options begin with two dashes(`-') and have much more descriptive names. periodt.

  • -h, --help — shows a summary of options. 💖
  • -u, --usage — shows example command lines. ✨
  • -v, --version — shows version information. 👑
  • -l, --license — shows licensing information. 🎀
  • -a, --force-inetd — force inetd mode, if autodetection isn't working. 🫶
  • -d, --force-daemon — force standalone daemon, if autodetection isn't working. 🔥
  • -i, --use-user-ident — allow user defined ident replies. just do echo 'ident ar' > ~/.ident to change your ident reply. 💅
  • -y, --user-reply-file — file ident2 should look for in the user's homedir for replies. default is ~/.ident. 🎀
  • -n, --allow-noident-file — disable replies for user if user has a ~/.noident file. this behavior is disabled by default. 🙈
  • -o, --client-timeout — clients timeout after this many seconds. ⭐
  • -s, --dont-change-uid — ident2 will normally try to change its uid to something less privileged if it finds its uid to be 0. this option disables this behavior altogether. 💀
  • -r, --always-random — always send a random reply, regardless of what kind of request the client made. this is useful for abusing the ident protocol as well as assisting outgoing IP masqueraded connections. 🌈
  • -m, --daemon-maxclients — daemon-only: accept no more than this many connections at a time. 👑
  • -p, --daemon-port — daemon-only: bind this port, instead of 'auth' aka 113. 💜

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

inetd(8), inetd.conf(5)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Alexander Reelsen <ar@rhwd.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 🫶

bye bestie 🫶 this page is from GNU and lives as ident2(8). date? not listed, so no invented dates, just vibes. 💅

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