Hello all,
I am running RHEL ES 4, and I am trying to get identd to run under xinetd (behind a firewall, of course!). I want my inn server to use identd to verify that those who are logging in to my server to post newsgroup messages a) have an account on the machine, and b) are using the ssl port (563) only through the firewall. I have been posting my difficulties on the inn-workers listserv, and have concluded that the problem I am currently having is with the identd server. I installed version 1.3 of Linux-identd. I have set up identd in /etc/xinetd.d this way:
service auth
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = yes
user = nobody
server = /usr/sbin/in.identd
server_args = in.identd -l -e
disable = no
}I tested this by running tcpdump:
# tcpdump -l -i lo | grep auth
From another terminal window on the local server, I typed:
$ telnet localhost auth Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. $
This fails quickly. This is the tcpdump output:
10:32:50.852063 IP news.server.com.33283 > news.server.com.auth: S 126727716:126727716(0) win 32767 <mss 16396>
10:32:50.852356 IP news.server.com.auth > news.server.com.33283: S 142417215:142417215(0) ack 126727717 win 32767 <mss 16396>
10:32:50.852419 IP news.server.com.33283 > news.server.com.auth: . ack 1 win 32767
10:32:50.925271 IP news.server.com.auth > news.server.com.33283: R 1:1(0) ack 1 win 32767
According to http://www.mandrakehelp.com/identd-HOWTO-4.html, this is not how identd should behave.
I believe that telnet should not have been summarily closed in that fashion.
I've been researching in the Internet, and in the archives of this list. No joy.
What am I doing wrong?
Bill Tangren
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