NAME

       nullidentd - a bare minimum identd server

SYNOPSIS

       nullidentd [uid]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page documents briefly the nullidentd command.  This manual page was written for the Debian
       GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       Nullidentd is intended to be a bare minimum identd  server,  suitable  for  a  firewall  or  IP  Masq/NAT
       gateway.

OPTIONS

       nullidentd takes only one optional argument, the username to answer with.  If this is omitted, nullidentd
       will reply with the username “foobar”.  If the username is RANDOM, a random string is generated.

USAGE

       nullidentd is typically invoked from inetd. The following is a typical inetd.conf example:
       auth stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/nullidentd nullidentd

AUTHOR

       nullidentd is written by Brian Young <bayoung@acm.org>

       This manual page was written by John H. Robinson, IV <jaqque@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system
       (but may be used by others).

                                                January 24, 2001                                   nullidentd(8)