Re: auth port security
Pere Camps <pere@casal.upc.es> writes:
> Does anybody know if the auth port has any know security
> compromises? A user has asked me to turn it on (I have almost everything
> off) and I'm not sure.
It will release the names of your users to anyone who is able to
connect to it, unless you install a dummy one which claims to know
nothing.
You should probably ask if your user really needs to use IRC. (This
is the only case I can think of when it's _needed_, and other networks
than Undernet are usually less strict anyway.)
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