NAME

       ident2 - An advanced ident daemon

SYNOPSIS

       ident2 [options]

DESCRIPTION

       ident2  is  an  advanced  ident  daemon, which can run as an inetd service or on it's own. It has various
       features such as user defined and random replies, extensive logging, and full administrative control.

OPTIONS

       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.

       -h, --help
              Show summary of options.

       -u, --usage
              Shows example command lines

       -v, --version
              Show version information

       -l, --license
              Show 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 a echo 'ident ar' > ~/.ident to change your ident reply.

       -y, --user-reply-file
              File ident2 should look for in 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 it's uid to something less privileged if it finds it's 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).

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