I believe the problems with pidof and daemons only arise when the daemon
does such funky things as changing argv[]. For example, sendmail - pidof
sendmail doesn't find anything, whereas killall does[1]. I suspect this is
correctable and possibly a bug in pidof, but this is the state of affairs
at
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Chris wrote:
> Can you explain what the problem with a auth daemon is? If there was a
> daemon listening on a system port then why couldn't local processes be
> sure that it is the real thing (since its the same machine anyway - if
> a skript kiddie can fake the daemon runnin
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Chris wrote:
> Well...then the query is at your control - and if you make a single
> query take a full second (or more) then it will take a very long time
> to brute force anything (and thats assuming there is no logging).
That doesn't solve the problem, merely slow it down.
On 18 Jan 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> I heared on Solaris you have a daemon, which takes username/password
> and tells you if the combination is OK.
rpc.pwdauthd. Nice idea, but Linux doesn't have (as far as I am aware) any
kind of a credentials mechanism so you know you're talking to a _r
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