I am running RHEL 3 and trying to set up a shell service. I got mostly everything installed and running, but when my bot connects to irc it shows up as:
Joins: TngMstr (U2FsdGVkX@blah.blah.net)
I believe the format for ident is: Username ident@host, so it appears the ident is screwed up. I have tried several ident progs, oidentd - pidentd - linux-identd, none of which solved my problem.
I have admin rights and root access to the machine.
ANY suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!!!
The -C[<keyfile>] option tells identd to return encrypted tokens
instead of user names. The local and remote IP addresses and TCP port
numbers, the local user's uid number, a timestamp, a random number, and
a checksum, are all encrypted using DES with a secret key derived from
the first line of the keyfile (using des_string_to_key(3)). The
encrypted binary information is then encoded in a base64 string (32
characters in length) and enclosed in square brackets to produce a
token that is transmitted to the remote client. The encrypted token
can later be decrypted by idecrypt(8). There may not be a space
between the -C and the name of the keyfile. If the keyfile is not
specified, it defaults to /usr/local/etc/identd.key.
I'd imagine it's the same, or similar, for RHEL's identd
I would like to thank demond for his response! He set me in the right direction! For anyone else looking for an answer to this question, you will find it here...
