fauxident A simple, free and open source faked ident daemon
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A simple, free and open source faked ident daemon fauxident is a free and small Python script that will act as an extremely naive ident server, automatically answering all ident requests with a consistent response -- either a USERID response or an ERROR. This can be advantageous on systems where running a true identd is unavailable, where it would be a security risk, or when masquerading firewalls are in use, where multiple machines are involved behind the firewall and running a proper ident system is not an option.An ident server is intended to get information on correlations between client and server ports on a machine, and connect them to the user involved with using it. ident is used implicitly by some other services; for instance, many IRC servers check for ident responses from connecting clients, and some in fact will reject clients which do not have an ident server running. The intent of this program is to allow users who cannot otherwise run identd servers (either for security or network topology reasons) to set up something that will respond, albeit trivially, with an ident response. Note that the server does understand the ident protocol enough to be able to detect, and response with the proper error messages to, malformed queries. The fauxident.py program should be run from the command line. By default it will act as a daemon. Also, since it binds to port 113 by default, root access is required. Any server that is already bound to port 113, of course, will prevent fauxident.py from running. Requirements: · Python 2.x or later What's New in This Release: · User name permuting was accidentally on by default; corrected missing -m entry in usage information.

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