oidentd v1.6.4 by Ryan McCabe <odin@numb.org>

Oidentd is an ident (rfc1413 compliant) daemon which runs on GNU/Linux,
FreeBSD and OpenBSD.  Oidentd supports most features of pidentd as well as
a number of features absent in pidentd.  Most notably, oidentd allows
users, given the proper permission, to specify the identd response that
the server will output when a successful lookup is completed.  Oidentd
also allows for pseudo-random strings (either a prefix, such as "user,"
followed by a number between 0 and 99999, or 10 pseudo-random characters
of the set 0-9A-Za-z) to be returned upon the completion of a successful
lookup instead of a username or a UID.  Oidentd supports IP masqueraded
connections and supports fowarding ident requests for IP masqeraded
connections to the machines from which the connections originate.  For
information on how to setup support for masqueraded connections, see the
"INSTALL" file. NOTE: Currently, only Linux supports the -P -f and -m options.
In other words, the IP masquerading support only exists on Linux right now.

For a more complete list of features, consult the manual page or run
oidentd -h.

NOTE: Some requests may be interpreted as having failed (by the client
      side and with ident in general, not just with this particular
      daemon) when "OTHER" is returned instead of the name of the
      operating system on which identd is running. (the -o option)

I have tested oidentd with both libc5 (x86) and glibc (x86 and alpha) on
GNU/Linux 2.[02].x, on FreeBSD 3.[0-4] (x86) and on OpenBSD 2.[245] (x86). 

NOTE: GNU make is required to compile this package. On some BSD systems, it
      may be installed as "gmake."  GNU make can be obtained from
      ftp.gnu.org, or any GNU mirror, in the directory /pub/gnu/make.
      Please don't mail me saying that make fails with "Need an operator."

The most recent version of oidentd will always be available at
http://ojnk.sourceforge.net

Please mail any suggestions, questions, comments, bug reports, et cetera to
odin@numb.org


$Id: README,v 1.4 2000/01/18 02:01:45 odin Exp $
