Re: [bug-anubis] [INFO] User identification problems with Anubis v 4.0

[Daniel S. Haischt]

Hello,

> Ah-ha, I see now. So, there are no problems in auth mode, are there?

Nope, auth mode works perfect!

> Let's summarise what's going on in transparent mode:
>
> 1) You connect to the host running Anubis from another machine. In this
> case Anubis requires that the username be translated in TRANSLATION
> section.

Yep, actually I am translation address@hidden to
haischt (which is a local user on my FreeBSD box).

> 2) Anubis queries identd server, gets username `haischt' from there,
> but it fails to translate it. Now, since the connect comes from the
> remote host (as opposed to localhost), Anubis refuses to use the received
> user name and switches to the unprivileged user 'nobody'.

Yep that's correct. Would it be possible to generate an explicit debug
message like "can't translate remote user to local user"?

> 3) Since 'nobody' does not have `.anubisrc' file (it should not have
> one, anyway), Anubis does not read any.

Yea that's true.

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