Re: restricting identd to just the loopback adapter.

From: David Jericho <david(dot)jericho(at)bytecomm(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Jerry Asher <jerry(at)theashergroup(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: restricting identd to just the loopback adapter.
Date: 2003-01-28 04:24:20
Message-ID: 20030128042420.GA13302@bytecomm.com.au
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On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:48:33PM -0800, Jerry Asher wrote:
> I installed pidentd from the red hat 8.0 distribution and started it
> up but, but looking over the conf files, there is apparently no way to
> restrict identd to listening/binding only to the localhost adapter.

The sgi_fam service contains an example, and it's detailed in the man
page xinetd.conf(5).

The option you're wanting is "bind".

The syntax being "bind = 127.0.0.1" in the service description stanza.

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