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+This is a program that implements the RFC1413 identification server. It
+was very much inspired by Dan Bernstein's original 'authd' (but unlike
+that program doesn't use 'netstat' to get some of the information) It
+uses the kernel information directly.  (And is due to that fact a lot
+faster). Dan has now written another version of the 'authd' daemon that
+uses his 'kstuff' to read the kernel information. Unlike that daemon,
+this will use only normally available kernel access functions (and is due
+to that more limited in the different machines it support). Please note
+that this daemon used to be called pauthd but has changed name to better
+reflect what it does (and to conform to the new RFC).