How To Install oidentd on Fedora 34

oidentd is RFC 1413-compliant identification server with NAT support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install oidentd on Fedora 34.

What is oidentd

The oidentd package contains identd, which implements the RFC 1413 identification server. Identd looks up specific TCP/IP connections and returns either the user name or other information about the process that owns the connection. Install oidentd if you need to look up information about specific TCP/IP connections.

We can use yum or dnf to install oidentd on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install oidentd.

Install oidentd on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install oidentd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install oidentd

Install oidentd on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install oidentd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install oidentd

How To Uninstall oidentd on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the oidentd package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove oidentd

oidentd Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/oidentd.conf
/etc/oidentd_masq.conf
/etc/sysconfig/oidentd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1/08e053023ea3d5a13f90615c0a9927e2dfb34f
/usr/lib/systemd/system/oidentd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/oidentd.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/sbin/oidentd
/usr/share/doc/oidentd
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/KERNEL_SUPPORT.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/README
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/_index.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/getting-started
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/getting-started/_index.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/getting-started/capabilities.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/getting-started/configuration
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/getting-started/configuration/_index.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/getting-started/configuration/examples.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/getting-started/installation.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/getting-started/starting-the-server.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/getting-started/support.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/guides
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/guides/_index.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/guides/using-oidentd-with-quassel.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/guides/using-oidentd-with-znc.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/nat
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/nat/_index.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/nat/forwarding.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/nat/introduction.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/nat/static-replies.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/security
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/security/_index.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/security/dropping-privileges.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/security/hiding-connections.md
/usr/share/doc/oidentd/book/security/identification-vs-authentication.md
/usr/share/licenses/oidentd
/usr/share/licenses/oidentd/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/oidentd/COPYING.DOC
/usr/share/man/man5/oidentd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/oidentd_masq.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/oidentd.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install oidentd on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.