psybnc & ident lookups

omg-ffs · 01-07-2005, 05:25 PM

Hi all,

To sum up the problem: oident will not return the user of a psybnc account, but rather returns that of the system user who's running the psybnc.

Now if I set oisent d ro run as root with

Code:

/usr/local/sbin/oidentd -d

Then the ident look up works if I have this as my /etc/oidentd.conf file

Code:

default {
 default {
   allow spoof
   allow spoof_all
   allow spoof_privport
   allow random
   allow random_numeric
   allow numeric
   allow hide
 }
}

This conf file above is given on the main psybnc page. Clearly running oidentd as root isn't such a good idea.. So how can I allow the lookups to work whilst using this as start up command?

Code:

/usr/local/sbin/oidentd -d -u ident -g ident

The ident group & user does exist ofc..

Ideally, I would like to use this as my config file, so that 2 psybnc's on my system (user1 & user2) Can spoof the ident reply, but all other users are not allowed to, this is what I believe is right:

Code:

default {
        default {
                deny spoof
                deny spoof_all
                deny spoof_privport
                allow random_numeric
                allow numeric
                allow hide
        }
}

user root {
        default {
                force reply "UNKNOWN"
        }
}

user user1 {
        default {
                allow spoof
                allow spoof_all
                allow spoof_privport
                allow random
                allow random_numeric
                allow numeric
                allow hide
        }
}

user user2 {
        default {
                allow spoof
                allow spoof_all
                allow spoof_privport
                allow random
                allow random_numeric
                allow numeric
                allow hide
        }
}

Would anyone be kind enough to help this

? Firstly to get the correct ident replies when it is run as non-root, and then clarification if my 2nd conf file will do as I require?

Thanks for your help