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List:       best-of-security
Subject:    Re: BoS: ident-scan
From:       Julian Assange <proff () suburbia ! net>
Date:       1996-02-21 21:42:01
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> 
> On Sat, 17 Feb 1996, Kai wrote:
> 
> > Looks like ident-scan is able to take ident out of service pretty quickly:
> > 
> > Feb 17 15:41:42 iq1 inetd[108]: ident/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated
> > 
> > (Under BSDI 2.0.1)
> > 
> > Inetd requires a SIGHUP after this.
> > 
> 
> there is a setting in the identd source to change this.  I don't remember 
> where off the top of my head

Run identd as a stand alone daemon, rather than as `nowait' from inetd.

ident  stream  tcp     wait    root    /usr/sbin/in.identd     in.identd -w

is what you want.


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