<quote who=""> > prepared to open up port 113 if I could guarantee that the program > would not give my real user id and there is no way that it could be > compromised.
i don't think theres anybody who could give a network daemon a complete vote of confidence and say it cannot be compromised. most of the identd servers with debian have no known problems, but that doesn't mean they are no unknown ones. if you don't NEED identd then don't run it. i use it on some systems for irc, but on the vast majority of my servers i do not have it installed. identd is not needed for email. my main mail servers do not have it. and they are behind firewalls that don't allow it through even if they did. maybe if i had the time to look at my firewall logs i would have them logged. i don't care if people hit ports that are blocked or are not running. nate
