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This message is to announce the release of Pidentd version 2.0. 
 
Machines/OS supported: Sun's SunOS 4, HP's HP-UX 7 & 8, DEC's Ultrix 4,
Sequent's Dynix 2 & 3, SysV Release 4, MIPS' RISC/OS 4, SGI IRIX 4 and
possible others... (It once ran on a Convex too)

What is Pidentd? It is a daemon that implements the IDENT / TAP / RFC931
protocol for various Unix machines. It can be used to identify TCP/IP
connection owners (so that information can be logged and not just the
IP number the connection was originating from). For more information
see the "pub/ident/doc" directory at the anonymous FTP archives at
the machine "ftp.lysator.liu.se" ("ftp.uu.net" mirrors the "pub/ident"
(and subdirectories) into "pub/networking/ident", but is probably not
100% up to date with the latest files. For information on how to get these
files via Email, see the end of this message.

New features (versus the old 1.8.1) include:

  * More machines/OS supported.

  * Multiple operation modes (start by Inetd (either one/connection, or
    one/at-first-connection) or run as standalone background daemon).

  * Better configurability (via command line options):

  	-m ............ Enables MultiQuery mode (as per IDENT)

	-N ............ Enables the HIDDEN-USER option.

	-c<charset> ... Adds the optional character set (as per IDENT)

	-e ............ Never give away any errors, always say UNKNOWN-ERROR

	-o ............ Never give away opsys type, always say OTHER

        -n ............ Don't return user names, return user numbers instead
			(will automatically enable "-o").

    (For a complete list of options, se the manual page or the source)

  * Better logging (via the syslog daemon), enabled via the option "-l".

  * A lot of bugs fixed...

The daemon is available via anonymous FTP from the machine "ftp.lysator.liu.se"
in the directory "pub/ident/servers" as the file "pidentd-2.0.tar.Z".

It can also be received by sending an email to "ftpserv@lysator.liu.se", 
subject ignored and with a body looking like:

CD pub/ident/servers
UUSEND pidentd-2.0.tar.Z
QUIT

Many thanks goes to the betatesters who have accepted my many test versions
without too much complaining! Thanks a lot!

Now the work starts on Pidentd-2.1... :-) It will probably contain
support for 4.3BSD and NeXTStep, will have a config file (in /etc),
and include some kind of encryption of the identifiers returned.

If you are interrested to become a beta-tester, please let me know and
I'll add you to the small mailing list!

Also note that the latest version of this daemon is always available
for anonymous FTP from the machine "ftp.lysator.liu.se" in the
directory "pub/ident/servers". It is also possible to access the
anonymous FTP archives via email. Send an email to "ftpserv@lysator.liu.se"
any subject (it is ignored) and with a body of:

	HELP
	CD pub/ident/servers
	DIR
	QUIT

This will send you a small page of information on how to retrieve files
and directory listings, and also a directory listing of the files in the
"pub/ident/servers" directory.

/Peter
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Peter Eriksson                                              pen@lysator.liu.se
Lysator Academic Computer Society                 ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
University of Linkoping, Sweden                           I'm bored. Flame me.