Re: naive user

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

Navindra Umanee <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca> writes:

> Montreal Mon Mar 15 19:03:54 1999
> 
> A long while ago, I recompiled my /usr/sbin/tcpd so that it properly
> does IDENT lookups on all connections and I replaced my old
> /usr/sbin/tcpd with the newly compiled one.
> 
> Is there a better way to handle this sort of thing?  Being a naive
> user I simply copied over the default Debian binary and forgot all
> about it but I hear rumours that in those in the BSD world have a
> clean way of handling such things.

The Debian default binary already can do IDENT lookups, and I think it 
has been able to do so for some time.

Ie:

telnetd:  ALL@ALL except PARANOID

will log ident information.  See the manpages for more details.