Warner Losh wrote: > In message <56059.931624...@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sheldon Hearn writes: > : If you do end up messing with inetd's existing ident service, please > : make sure that the default behaviour remains the same and that the > : operator must do something to enable an ident service that reports more > : than just "UNKNOWN-ERROR". > > Yes. I'd love to replace my perl script: > > #!/usr/local/bin/perl > ($a, $b) = split(/[,\n\r ]+/,<>); > print "$a , $b : USERID : UNIX : Warm-Fuzzy\r\n"; > > with something a little less heavy-weight.
Come on guys! identd is one of those topics that also comes under the banner of "religion", and no one solution works for everyone. It is often abused, has too much credibility placed on it at times that it is really meaningless, and it *does* have legitimate uses. It all depends on the circumstances. I just wish that the inetd builtins could take arguments to allow selection of behavior according to what the the person using needs or wants. (ie: real, fake, "unknown error", "piss off", etc results). I also like pidentd's DES encrypted cookie as it is a nice solution to the forgery problem. (I actually had this happen once, a long time ago). Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
