On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:25:53PM +0100, Sebastian Stark wrote:
> identd takes two parameters, the server and the source port of a tcp
> connection. it gives back the userid of the user who started it. am i
> right so far?
> i think, the userid may be useful for some purposes but in most cases it
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Fredrik Liljegren wrote:
> > i'd turn auth off for security reasons if your box has a direct
> > connection to internet.
> Many people misunderstand the usefulness of identd, and so disable it or
> block all off site requests for it. identd is not there to help out remote
> sit
> irc server make ident connections to clients.
> squid can use ident for authorization.
> sendmail sometimes uses ident.
>
> maybe you want to read rfc1413.
>
> i'd turn auth off for security reasons if your box has a direct
> connection to internet.
Hmm, that's an easy approach, but from Secur
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Ivan Ivanovic wrote:
> On my Slink placed on Inernet often appears auth port connection attempts
> from various sites...
> What (common) application needs this port?
irc server make ident connections to clients.
squid can use ident for authorization.
sendmail sometimes us
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