from the README: Oidentd is an RFC 1413-compliant ident daemon which runs on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Oidentd supports most features of pidentd as well as a number of features absent in pidentd. Most notably, oidentd allows users, given the proper permission, to specify the identd response that the server will output when a successful lookup is completed. Oidentd also allows for pseudo-random strings (either a prefix, such as "user," followed by a number between 0 and 99999, or 10 pseudo-random characters of the set 0-9A-Za-z) to be returned upon the completion of a successful lookup instead of a username or a UID. The IP masquerading support only exists on Linux right now. FreeBSD's inetd has a built-in ident service which can also generate bogus responses. WWW: http://ojnk.sourceforge.net/ Trevor Johnson trevor@jpj.net