diff -Naur pidentd-3.0.14.orig/src/main.c pidentd-3.0.14/src/main.c
--- pidentd-3.0.14.orig/src/main.c	Fri Aug 31 12:20:34 2001
+++ pidentd-3.0.14/src/main.c	Mon Dec 10 12:25:21 2001
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
 {
     if (server_uid == NO_UID)
     {
-	if (str2uid("nobody", &server_uid, &server_gid) < 0)
+	if (str2uid("pidentd", &server_uid, &server_gid) < 0)
 	    server_uid = ROOT_UID;
     }
     
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
     int socket_type = -1;
     int init_mode = 0;
     int log_header = 0;
-    
+    int xinetd = 0;    
 
     if (argv[0] != NULL)
     {
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@
 	  case 'i':
 	    listen_sock = STDIN_FILENO;
 	    socket_type = SOCKTYPE_CONNECTED;
+	    xinetd = 1;
 	    break;
 	    
 	  case 'I':
@@ -406,7 +407,7 @@
    have different uid's... Luckily Linux doesn't need root to get at
    the needed information anyway. */
 #ifdef __linux__
-    drop_root_privs();
+    if (!xinetd) drop_root_privs();
 #endif
     
     if (kernel_init() < 0)
@@ -418,7 +419,7 @@
     }
 
 #ifndef __linux__
-    drop_root_privs();
+    if (!xinetd) drop_root_privs();
 #endif
     
     timeout_init();