Re: ircii question
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Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
> s. keeling wrote:
>> Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>:
>>
>>> What package or packages need to be installed so when I connect to
>>> an irc server I don't get the message Ident is disabled?
>>>
>>
>> pidentd
>>
>>
>>
> I would also think something like inetd or xinetd would be good. Identd
> should not need to run all the time, letting (x)inetd fire it up as
> needed would be better.
>
> Hot tip: consider carefully how much you reveal about your machine
> through the ident service.
>
Security through obscurity is now offically dead.
If someone wants access to your box, because of the absurd bandwidth
available to a cracker (botnet, anyone?), they'll just try every xploit
in their db, regardless of it's compatibility with your alleged system.
You might as well just have ident running, I forward 113 onto my fBSD
machine, so my whole network appears to be 6.2-current (yes i'm too lazy
to upgrade)
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