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README based on original for nullidentd

What is is

aidentd is intended to be a total joke of an ident server, based on the much cleaner ( and better) nullident by Brian Young <bayoung@acm.org>.

The program implements the auth protocol from RFC 1413. This protocol is used to identify active TCP connections. It returns a fake response for any request - consisting of a random OS from RFC1340 and a random userid from the (current) list of active Pokémon.

The auth port is tcp 113.

Why it is

It seemed like a good idea at the time. But many things do after lots of whisky. It's probably fortunate that RFC1413 doesn't allow carriage returns, or aidentd would probably be returning ASCII art Snoopy's.

It might just cheer up some depressed mail/ftp/etc server admin perusing their logs, or it might drive them over the edge: who knows?

How to do it

Grab the download: aidentd-1.0.tar.gz (13k)

Unpack, and read the README. Enjoy.

What it does

Before & After: NMap run against localhost (extra services turned on for effect - don't even think about it.)

Starting nmap V. 2.3BETA10 by Fyodor (fyodor@dhp.com, www.insecure.org/nmap/)
Interesting ports on localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1):

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 4 seconds

Thus cleverly hiding all those services running as root.

Gotta Catch 'Em All

Pokémon is (are?) a trademark of Nintendo. The various OS names are probably trademarks of whoever owns them.

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Written by Afghan Hound. Mail afghan-ident@afghanhound.org.uk if you want.

Copyright (C) 2001 Afghan Hound Software

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

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