Why was this release made?

Well, after the code had been out there for several months, Carl Edman
released this neat new version of finger, that supports RFC931 among
other things.  Suddenly there was a flurry of people getting that, 
and as a side effect installing nidentd servers on their machines.
This was when I got my first comments about the software, and guess
what, I had fluffed in the install section!

I run a network of NeXTs as part of a larger homogenous network of
systems.  One of the first things I do as part of my installation
procedure is niload the proper (ie matching our other systems)
group file up into the local netinfo db - otherwise our mail and
news gets messed up.  However when I produced this package I forgot
this, and assumed that my group names are correct.  What I think of
as "sys", you all call "kmem", and this totally wrecks my install
instructions.

Obviously many people worked this out, but this extra release is
purely to correct the bugs in the install instructions - nothing
else has been touched (other than a setgid option in the Makefile).

So whats going to happen.

When I get time (some hope), I will update nidentd to include all
the neat additional features that Peter Eriksson has put in his
version - basically it will run permanently as a daemon rather than
being kicked off by inetd, and it will hold the kernel information
internally which will mean it will respond *much* faster.  I am
also watching the development of the TAP protocols (basically RFC931
taken onward), and will keep it up with that.  I will try to keep it
as small and simple as possible within these constraints!

		Nigel Metheringham
		<nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk>
		24 July, 1992