Re: OT: IRC & the ~
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 12:10:48AM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote:
>
> On 23-Sep-2000 William Jensen wrote:
> > Is the ~ in front of your name in IRC due to the lack of auth installed?
> > I cannot find identd anywhere with dpkg. I've tried dpkg -l|grep iden.
> > When I had deb installed on another system I somehow picked up identd and
> > I was not listed as ~ in name so that got me thinking. Anyway, what is
> > the std debian auth package? <-- assuming this is the issue?
>
> A standard ident daemon returns the owner of a specified connection.
> IRC servers use this to get your username (on your machine) when you
> connect to them.
> What they do if you don't have an identd installed is totally up to them --
> I can't tell you that.
My experience is that some refuse to let you on until you install auth or say
you are not authorized to use the server. That is why I wanted to get it
installed.
>
> Running a vanilla identd is a Bad Thing IMHO. It helps attackers identify
> usernames and find out under what UIDs daemons are running (eg. if sendmail
> is running as root).
Is there a secure way of providing the information an IRC server wants, while
rejecting the cracker's attempts?
>
> -----
> $ apt-cache search --names-only identd
> pidentd-des - TCP/IP IDENT protocol server with DES support.
> oidentd - Replacement ident daemon
> midentd - identd replacement with masquerading support.
> pidentd - TCP/IP IDENT protocol server.
> -----
> pidentd is the standard one
>
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