On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Harold Gutch wrote:
> 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.
And pidentd will still be supported. Eventually, I'd like to have those
huge majority who do not use DES tokens with pidentd move to the
inetd identd (when committed)...
>
> bye,
> Harold
>
> --
> <Shabby> Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein.
> Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet
>
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