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Date:      Sat, 4 Sep 1999 11:49:46 -0700
From:      Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net>
To:        Luc Morin <luc_m@videotron.ca>
Cc:        torstenb@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problems with pidentd-2.8.5
Message-ID:  <19990904114946.C5261@norn.ca.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <37D13FB3.499BA7FB@videotron.ca>
References:  <37D13FB3.499BA7FB@videotron.ca>

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On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 11:50:11AM -0400, Luc Morin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had pidentd-2.8.5 installed on my 3.2-stable (cvsup last week) for a
> while now, and it was working fine. I rebuilt the port on september 3rd,
> and now it doesn't work anymore.
> 
> I found that if I try to run identd as user kmem:kmem in inetd.conf, it
> won't work though that's how it used to work before I rebuilt the port.
> Now I have to run it as root:wheel in order for it to run properly.

That's right.  Brian Feldman backported some changes from -current
that simplify getting user credentials from a socket.  This is one
side effect.

<quote from commit message to /etc/inetd.conf>
1.33.2.2 Sun Aug 29 13:15:39 1999 UTC by green 
Branch: RELENG_3 
The new pidentd now runs as root.
</quote>

-Chris
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cpiazza@home.net              cpiazza@FreeBSD.org
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