On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 11:47:33PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
> We don't _need_ pidentd anymore. It will load down a system more than
> the inetd's implementation of ident will. Therefore, pidentd should be
> phased out. Other than that, pidentd should be using
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~green/freebsd4.c and not linking with libkvm.
>
pidentd supports DES-encrypted tokens as replies instead of the
plaintext usernames. As long as your identd (or any other
replacement) does not support this, there is still valid use for
pidentd.
bye,
Harold
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