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Bug 6613

Summary:	identd -l option no longer logs the remote host
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	culliton
Component:	pidentd	Assignee:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description culliton 1999-11-01 21:28:01 UTC

identd's -l option no longer logs the host which has
contacted it. While identd is a small eough program to be
"safe" I still want a log of who's querying the system.
(All TCP connections should be loggable for security
auditing purposes.) I would at least recommend changing the
entry in /etc/inetd.conf to read:

auth   stream  tcp     nowait    nobody    /usr/sbin/tcpd
in.identd -l -e -o

So that tcpd can log the host id for you.

Comment 1 Chris Siebenmann 1999-11-02 08:02:59 UTC

Using tcpd to log things may cause an identd loop if each side has
a tcpd-wrapped identd, and each side is configured to do identd
lookups in tcpd.

Comment 2 Chuck Powell 1999-11-03 05:18:59 UTC

Try removing the '-l' switch from the auth entry in /etc/inetd.conf
and uncomment the 'result:syslog-level =' entry in /etc/identd.conf
and set it's value to 'info'.
	#-- Log all request replies to syslog (none == don't)
	result:syslog-level = info

Comment 3 culliton 1999-11-12 07:11:59 UTC

Suggested configuration change works.  The documentation and comments in config
file could be clearer about use of syslog-level.  As it stands it's not
immediately obvious that setting it to a value other than none enables
additional logging rather than just "redirecting" the basic log messages.
Close this or reassign it for documentation at your discretion.

Comment 4 culliton 1999-12-16 19:42:59 UTC

This one ends up being a "the default behaviour changed and the documentation
could use some clarification" problem.  Otherwise the suggestions above have
resolved the problem.