>>ident stream tcp nowait nobody /bin/echo echo string ?
>
>Will not reformat string based on the ports provided by the requesting
>ident lookup, thus causing an invalid response.  It's true -- a simple
>script to read an ident request, and produce a reply with the correct
>ports but a static user string would be pretty trivial to write, but it
>seemed to me more intuitive to add it as a fast-path within identd...

libwrap?  and "twist"?

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