Doug <[email protected]> writes:
> In my experience, and in the experience of the PR poster it *is*
> necessary to use the canonical name of the service, however if you can
> check the code, test it thoroughly and determine that inetd works
> perfectly well with aliases, then feel free to change the man page for
> inetd.
Empirical evidence as well as the source code say you're both wrong.
The builtin ident service is listed as "ident" in inetd's table over
internal services.
d...@des ~% telnet localhost auth
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
des
des:ERROR:HIDDEN-USER
Connection closed by foreign host.
d...@des ~% grep ident /etc/inetd.conf
# Return error for all "ident" requests
ident stream tcp nowait root internal
# example entry for the optional ident server
#ident stream tcp wait kmem:kmem /usr/local/sbin/identd identd
-w -t120
d...@des ~% grep ident /usr/src/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.c
void ident_stream __P((int, struct servtab *));
{ "ident", SOCK_STREAM, 1, -1, ident_stream },
ident_stream(s, sep) /* Ident service */
DES
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