[Sunhelp] help on ident server..

[Flynn, Harold M. III]

For identd?  no way, dude.

At the shop I used to run, I got a copy of pidentd, compiled, and installed
as root:other.  works fine to this day, and there's no security implications
involved with it that I know of.  A default build of it will install into
/usr/local/sbin.

As for an entry into /etc/inetd.conf, try this one:

ident   stream  tcp     wait    root    /usr/local/sbin/identd  identd -w
-t120

Works for me.  kmem is the kernel memory group.  I've seen it on a few other
*nix's (linux and bsd, I believe) but don't recall existing on solaris.

Hal the Pal

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Srikanta Nayak [SMTP:srikanta.nayak at cablecom.ch]
> Sent:	Thursday, February 17, 2000 8:09 AM
> To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject:	[Sunhelp] help on ident server..
> Importance:	High
> 
> Hello Friends! 
> 
> I would be thankful if any body can gudie me to configure the ident 1.7
> server on solaris 2.6. I have some doubts from installation procedure
> documents which is leading me fails on the test procedure ... 
> 
> This is the step ( from installation docs) where I have doubts : 
> 
> Edit the file /etc/inetd.conf to contain a line (replace "sys" with a user
> with enough rights to READ the kernel memory. Under SunOS 4.*, user "sys"
> is a member of the "kmem" group and is a good choice. If you have no
> "kmem" or "sys" user, then I suggest you create one and assign read rights
> for the group "kmem" to the /vmunix and /dev/kmem and /dev/mem "files" -
> you might also have to modify the group id of other programs that read the
> kernel, like "netstat", "ps" and more): 
> 
> 1. Normally in Solaris 2.x : sys is a user under sys group only. There is
> no group such as kmem. Does it require to create any more user & any
> group like kmem?  Tried with root & sys user  to invoke  in.identd  from
> inetd.conf, but  it failed the test procedure . 
> 
> Looking forward to ur reply at the earlist. 
> 
> Regards. 
> 
> Mr.Shrikant. 
>