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+%global _hardened_build 1
+
+Summary: A RFC 1413 ident protocol daemon
+Name: authd
+Version: 1.4.4
+Release: 5%{?dist}.1
+License: GPLv2+
+URL: https://github.com/InfrastructureServices/authd
+Obsoletes: pidentd < 3.2
+Provides: pidentd = 3.2
+Requires(post): openssl
+Source0: https://github.com/InfrastructureServices/authd/releases/download/v1.4.4/authd-1.4.4.tar.gz
+Source1: auth.socket
+Source2: auth@.service
+BuildRequires:  gcc
+BuildRequires: openssl-devel gettext help2man systemd-units
+Requires(post): systemd-units
+Requires(preun): systemd-units
+Requires(postun): systemd-units
+
+Patch0: authd-covscan.patch
+
+%description
+authd is a small and fast RFC 1413 ident protocol daemon
+with both xinetd server and interactive modes that
+supports IPv6 and IPv4 as well as the more popular features
+of pidentd.
+
+%prep
+%autosetup
+
+%build
+make prefix=%{_prefix} CFLAGS="%{optflags}" \
+        LDFLAGS="-lcrypto %{build_ldflags}"
+
+%install
+%make_install datadir=%{buildroot}/%{_datadir} \
+	sbindir=%{buildroot}/%{_sbindir}
+
+install -d %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/
+install -m 644 %{SOURCE1} %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/
+install -m 644 %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}%{_unitdir}/
+
+install -d %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/
+touch %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/ident.key
+
+install -d %{buildroot}/%{_mandir}/man1/
+help2man -N -v -V %{buildroot}/%{_sbindir}/in.authd -o \
+         %{buildroot}/%{_mandir}/man1/in.authd.1
+
+%find_lang %{name}
+
+%post
+/usr/sbin/adduser -s /sbin/nologin -u 98 -r -d '/' ident 2>/dev/null || true
+/usr/bin/openssl rand -base64 -out %{_sysconfdir}/ident.key 32
+echo CHANGE THE LINE ABOVE TO A PASSPHRASE >> %{_sysconfdir}/ident.key
+/bin/chown ident:ident %{_sysconfdir}/ident.key
+chmod o-rw %{_sysconfdir}/ident.key
+%systemd_post auth.socket
+
+%postun
+%systemd_postun_with_restart auth.socket
+
+%preun
+%systemd_preun auth.socket
+
+%files -f authd.lang
+%license COPYING
+%verify(not md5 size mtime user group) %config(noreplace) %attr(640,root,root) %{_sysconfdir}/ident.key
+%doc COPYING README.html rfc1413.txt
+%{_sbindir}/in.authd
+%{_mandir}/*/*
+%{_unitdir}/*
+
+%changelog
+* Wed Jul 17 2019 Pavel Zhukov <pzhukov@redhat.com> - 1.4.4-5.1
+- Resolves: #1722492 - Partially revert covscan fix 
+
+* Mon Feb 18 2019 Pavel Zhukov <pzhukov@redhat.com> - 1.4.4-5
+- Related: #1642073 - Properly pass hardened ld flags
+- Fix covscan reported errors
+
+* Sun Feb 17 2019 Pavel Zhukov <pzhukov@redhat.com> - 1.4.4-2
+- Related: #1642073 - Rebuild with RHEL CFLAGS
+- Enabled hardered build
+
+* Tue Feb 12 2019 Pavel Zhukov <pzhukov@redhat.com> - 1.4.4-1
+- Import from Fedora
+- New release (v1.4.4)
+- New upstream URL
+
+