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From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
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Subject: Re: IRC vs identd vs inetd.conf vs me! [authwsome!]
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On Thu, 30 May 2002, Ruben wrote:
> PL> Can anyone in a nutshell explain how to enable "identd" on Fbsd 4.5-RELEASE?
> Uncomment the corresponding line in inetd.conf:
> auth   stream  tcp     nowait  root    internal        auth -r -f -n -o UNKNOWN -t 30

Hmm, yeah I figured out that much on my own...

> Then put the desired username in your $HOME/.fakeid [...]

*slowwww nod*  ...but I hadn't done this part.  `man 8 inetd` looked like a
bunch of script kiddie stuff with that "fakeid" string appearing everywhere.

> PL> Yes I realize I shouldn't irc (breathe, sleep, or fart) as root, but hey.
> Hey? -Sigh

So once the /etc/inetd.conf changes are in, the sysadmin must kill the
running "inetd" process and restart it, yes?  Another valid question: What
are the merits in FreeBSD (or Unix in general) of calling binaries with the
full path vs just the binary name?  For example, I found out the PID for
inetd and did: `kill 96 ; /usr/sbin/inetd -lwW` so how does that differ or
matter from `kill 96 ; inetd -lwW` uh?  Thanks for the help, you really got
me goin!

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