This manual page documents briefly the
nullidentd command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
Nullidentd is intended to be a bare minimum identd server, suitable for a firewall or IP
Masq/NAT gateway.
OPTIONS
nullidentd takes only one optional argument, the username to answer with.
If this is omitted,
nullidentd will reply with the username (lqfoobar(rq.
If the username is RANDOM, a random string is generated.
USAGE
nullidentd is typically invoked from inetd. The following
is a typical inetd.conf example:
auth stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/nullidentd nullidentd
AUTHOR
nullidentd
is written by Brian Young <bayoung@acm.org>
This manual page was written by John H. Robinson, IV <jaqque@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
