ANN: fauxident 1.1 -- A simple, faked ident daemon
Erik Max Francis
max@alcyone.com
Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:54:40 -0800
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 1.1.
The latest version of the software is available in a tarball here:
http://www.alcyone.com/pyos/fauxident/fauxident-latest.tar.gz.
The official URL for this Web site is
http://www.alcyone.com/pyos/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
- 1.1; 2002 Dec 7. Allow multiple user names to be chosen
randomly from; include support for suffixed random number of
given length; change to -V option for version information;
improve documentation.
- 1.0.1; 2002 Oct 15. Bugfix to reject large input buffers from
the client, preventing a highly unlikely but possible DOS
attack.
- 1.0; 2002 Aug 14. Initial release.
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