nullidentd - a bare minimum identd server

nullidentd is written by Brian Young <bayoung@acm.org>

       This manual page was written by John H. Robinson, IV <jaqque@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system
       (but may be used by others).

                                                January 24, 2001                                   nullidentd(8)

       This  manual  page documents briefly the nullidentd command.  This manual page was written for the Debian
       GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       Nullidentd is intended to be a bare minimum identd  server,  suitable  for  a  firewall  or  IP  Masq/NAT
       gateway.

       nullidentd - a bare minimum identd server

nullidentd takes only one optional argument, the username to answer with.  If this is omitted, nullidentd
       will reply with the username “foobar”.  If the username is RANDOM, a random string is generated.

nullidentd [uid]

nullidentd is typically invoked from inetd. The following is a typical inetd.conf example:
       auth stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/nullidentd nullidentd