Re: is identd gone?
On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 07:01:11PM -0000, Pollywog wrote:
> I just discovered that identd seems to be gone from my system (potato) and
> it is also commented out in /etc/inetd.conf
>
> Is this a problem?
Andrew, most people would feel this is a security feature rather than a
problem. identd allows people to see usernames, which is partway to having a
username/password pair. If you need it, you can install it via
apt-get install midentd
-or-
apt-get install oidentd.
(here is their one-line description:
oidentd - Replacement ident daemon
midentd - identd replacement with masquerading support.
)
Which you want, I don't know. (I thought inetd handled identd too, but my
inetd.conf file shows that it runs identd directly -- and it DOESN'T USE
TCPWRAPPERS. Is *this* right?)
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