From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 21 5:14:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E3FC37B479 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2000 05:14:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e9LCEPx21631; Sat, 21 Oct 2000 08:14:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IRC/oidentd problem References: <20001020221537.C53961F28@static.unixfreak.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 21 Oct 2000 08:14:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: dima@unixfreak.org's message of "21 Oct 2000 00:42:18 +0200" Message-ID: <441yxa2xy6.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message