Re: identd -- do I need it?
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, aphro wrote:
> it returns the userid of the process, really the only thing that is
> popular and needs identd is if you use IRC. identd can also be used in
> combonation with tcp_wrappers to allow/deny certain users, although it is
> not that secure, ident can easily be spoofed.
Again, email servers often use it. Example:
george@atlas:~$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 atlas.captech.com ESMTP Exim 3.11 #1 Sun, 09 Jan 2000 22:53:46 -0800
HELO localhost
250 atlas.captech.com Hello george at localhost [127.0.0.1]
Notice in the greeting it says "Hello george at localhost"
It used identd to get the user.
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