.\" Copyright (c) 2001
.\"	Dirk-Willem van Gulik.  All rights reserved.
.\"	See http://www.webweaving.org/LICENSE for licensing details.
.\"
.\" $Id$
.\"
.Dd Januari, 2001
.Dt WIDENTD 1
.Os
.Sh WIDENTD
.Nm widentd
.Nd answers on the auth(113) port according to rfc 1413 with a fixed reply.
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl v
.Op Fl u userid
.Op Fl o system-name
.Op Fl s service
.Op Fl i address
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
deamon listens on either the specified address or on
all interface addresses on the 
.xref 4 tcp
port (the default is 113). It then waits for a connection
and always replies with default reply. Use the
.Fl i
flag to specify a diffrent address to bind to; and use
the 
.Fl s
flag to sepcify another port.
.Pp
Any errors are logged to syslog unless
the 
.Fl v
flag is set. In this case the deamon will not fork and print out some
verbose stuff on stdout. Errors go to stderr.
.Pp
The username returned can be set with the
.Fl u
flag; and although rfc 1413 allows for a wide range of characters and
charsets, this applications is restricted to just the normal A-Z, '.',
'-' and '@' range; as some broken IRC servers barf on anything more
complex. The default is 'chuck', in honour of http://www.webweaving.org/chuck/
.Pp
Likewise the 
.Fl o
flag sets the operating system; the default is OTHER. Possible values
are UNIX or one of the SYSTEM NAMES as registered with IANA (See
rfc1340 or its successors).
.Pp
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr identd 8
.Sh EXTRNAL REFERENCE
RFC 1413 / http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1413.txt identification protocol

RFC 1340 / http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1340.txt IANA assigned names and numbers

.Sh BUGS

This deamon is propably not very compliant with RFC 1413; it ignores
charsets, it quite intentionally lies, and so on. Fixes appreciated.

.Sh ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Chuck (http://www.webweaving.org/chuck) needed an
identd server.  Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote one 
for him.