Subject: Re: CVS commit: src (identd -L)
To: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@t.dk>
From: Jim Wise <jwise@draga.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 05/18/1999 12:24:45
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On Tue, 18 May 1999, Soren S. Jorvang wrote:

>On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 12:01:18PM -0400, Jim Wise wrote:
>> - -F is really meant to provide reformatted information.  When using -o
>> - -F"string", identd still hits kvm and grovels around for the information
>> which might be returned.  -L is a fastpath to respond with a static
>> string and get out, without even doing kvm_open().
>
>ident stream tcp nowait nobody /bin/echo echo string ?

Will not reformat string based on the ports provided by the requesting
ident lookup, thus causing an invalid response.  It's true -- a simple
script to read an ident request, and produce a reply with the correct
ports but a static user string would be pretty trivial to write, but it
seemed to me more intuitive to add it as a fast-path within identd...

- -- 
				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com

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