ANN: fauxident 1.2 -- A simple, faked ident daemon

[Erik Max Francis]

Summary

    A simple, faked ident daemon.


Overview

    fauxident is a small Python script that will act as an extremely
    naive ident server, answering all ident requests with a consistent
    response -- either an ERROR or a USERID response.  This can be
    advantageous on systems where running a true identd is
    unavailable, where it would be a security risk, or when
    masquerading firewalls are in use, where multiple machines are
    involved behind the firewall and running a proper ident system is
    not an option.


Getting the software

    The current version of fauxident is 1.2.

    The latest version of the software is available in a tarball here:
    http://www.alcyone.com/software/fauxident/fauxident-latest.tar.gz.

    The official URL for this Web site is
    http://www.alcyone.com/software/fauxident/.


Requirements

    fauxident requires Python 2.x or greater and a Unix or Unix-like
    operating system.


License

    This code is released under the GPL.


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Release history [since 1.1]

    - 1.2; 2003 Sep 27.  Add -m option to permute user names in
      responses.

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