identd with FreeBSD 6.0?

Kevin Lamothe kevin at animenfo.com
Fri Sep 30 03:01:18 PDT 2005


Doug Barton wrote:

>Kevin Lamothe wrote:
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>>Hey there, I've tried FreeBSD 6.0-Beta 1 up till 5, so far I cannot get
>>identd to work properly. the daemon runs but it doesn't reply the
>>username when services such as irc request it.
>>
>>I've tried oidentd and pidentd. Any ideas?
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>The two most common problems here are a firewall, and/or lack of permissions
>in /etc/hosts.allow. Also, were you aware that the native inetd contains an
>ident service? Do your logs show any errors?
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>Doug
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Yeah I know the inetd one works, but none of the standalone daemons seem 
to work with FreeBSD6, I'm using the latest oidentd on my FreeBSD 5 
server. I used the same config on both of them.

Theres no firewall on the machines its self, and hosts.allow and deny 
are blank.



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