Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:40:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf] Message-ID: <199906211840.LAA95240@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/11796; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org>
Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Doug <Studded@gorean.org>,
freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG,
Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>,
freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, alex@wnm.net
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: misc/11796: Bad lines in 3.2-RELEASE inetd.conf]
Date: 21 Jun 1999 20:32:08 +0200
Doug <Doug@gorean.org> writes:
> In my experience, and in the experience of the PR poster it *is*
> necessary to use the canonical name of the service, however if you can
> check the code, test it thoroughly and determine that inetd works
> perfectly well with aliases, then feel free to change the man page for
> inetd.
Empirical evidence as well as the source code say you're both wrong.
The builtin ident service is listed as "ident" in inetd's table over
internal services.
des@des ~% telnet localhost auth
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
des
des:ERROR:HIDDEN-USER
Connection closed by foreign host.
des@des ~% grep ident /etc/inetd.conf
# Return error for all "ident" requests
ident stream tcp nowait root internal
# example entry for the optional ident server
#ident stream tcp wait kmem:kmem /usr/local/sbin/identd identd -w -t120
des@des ~% grep ident /usr/src/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.c
void ident_stream __P((int, struct servtab *));
{ "ident", SOCK_STREAM, 1, -1, ident_stream },
ident_stream(s, sep) /* Ident service */
DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no
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