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Subject: Re: ident daemon: oIdentd creating a lot of processes
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Hello

Anjang Aki wrote:
> i'm using oidentd-2.0.8 installed through /usr/ports/security/oidentd
> for ident authentication

> is this normal for those who are using oidentd as ident daemon? or
> should i try other ident daemon?

Is there a reason why you do not use the identd from FreeBSD itself?

It is part of inetd and can be enabled in /etc/inetd.conf. I have 
changed the default options from:

#auth   stream  [...]  auth -r -f -n -o UNKNOWN -t 30

to:

auth   stream  [...]  auth -r -t 30

Documentation about the options is in the manpage of inetd (search 
for "auth").

Hope this helps.


bye
Fabian