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Date:      21 Oct 2000 08:14:25 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IRC/oidentd problem
Message-ID:  <441yxa2xy6.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>
In-Reply-To: dima@unixfreak.org's message of "21 Oct 2000 00:42:18 %2B0200"
References:  <G2QJVX00.EUO@loran.bluestar.net> <20001020221537.C53961F28@static.unixfreak.org>

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dima@unixfreak.org (Dima Dorfman) writes:

> Some time ago, when I had the same problem, I wrote a patch for
> pidentd to, instead of replying with a NO-USER, reply with a default
> user name.  Here's a comment from my web site:
> 
>    This patch adds a feature to pidentd-2.8.5 which sends back a default
>    username if one was not found for that particular query. I'm pretty
>    sure this breaks the RFC (I never bothered to read it), but I can't
>    see any real harm.

The 'auth' implementation built into inetd implements this.


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