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- What They Do for Enable ident and Disable ident for Mac OS X GM
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- 31 March, 2001
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- aka "more technical info on how and why"
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- You can safely ignore this if it doesn't make sense.
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- Background Info
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- inetd.conf can be read as "internet daemon configuration file". A daemon is
- essentially a server program that various other parts of the operating system talk
- to when they need internet services. If a particular service is not listed in
- inetd.conf, inetd (the internet daemon) will not provide those services.
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- inetd.conf is set to be only modifiable by the root user to make it 'safer'.
- This is why one must log out and then back in as root to run the scripts.
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- What the scripts do
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- The Enable ident script looks in the file /private/etc/inetd.conf for the line
- supplied by Apple:
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- #ident stream tcp wait root /usr/libexec/tcpd identd -w -t120
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- If it is in inetd.conf, then it changes that line to:
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- auth stream tcp wait root /usr/libexec/tcpd identd -w -t120
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- i.e. it changes '#ident' to 'auth'
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- if that line has been otherwise modified the script will not work.
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- Likewise the Disable ident script only changes
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- auth stream tcp wait root /usr/libexec/tcpd identd -w -t120
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- to
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- #ident stream tcp wait root /usr/libexec/tcpd identd -w -t120
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- This is freeware. Please redistribute the whole package intact. Use it if you
- like it; don't blame me if you don't like it. Spread it around. Enjoy the
- sunshine. Call your mother.
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- Written by Mosquito. mosquito@netmug.org
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- This is the first version.