Bug 145353 – oidentd 2.0.8 - error initialising core

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description barthek 2006-08-28 06:49:53 UTC]

The new build of oidentd exits with:

oidentd[31046]: Error initializing core

when used through xinetd and ran as nobody user.

it seems that this is causing problem:

[pid 31152] open("/proc/net/ip_masquerade", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
[pid 31152] ioctl(2, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0x5f696e88) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

i have not found a way to disable masquerading support in oinetd through command line switch.

oidentd is ran only with -I argument.

[Comment 1 Christoph Mende (RETIRED) 2007-05-31 22:38:55 UTC]

oidentd-2.0.8 has the -m switch for masqueraded/NAT connections, please try with that option - also there's an oidentd_masq.conf supplied with the package that has some useful comments :>

[Comment 2 barthek 2007-06-01 09:57:04 UTC]

thanks for answer
but the whole point is i don't use masqueraded connections at all.
hence, i don't need to mask or translate identd responses.

[Comment 3 Christoph Mende (RETIRED) 2007-08-18 03:38:29 UTC]

I've just added the masquerade use flag to disable support for NAT, could you try to compile oidentd without that flag and see if that helps?

[Comment 4 barthek 2007-08-23 14:10:18 UTC]

i have recompiled without the flag and it seems that ident user doesnt have to be in priviliged group anymore
well done :D