From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 10 12:34:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from penelope.skunk.org (unknown [208.133.204.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E33714BDB; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 12:34:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@penelope.skunk.org) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by penelope.skunk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA16963; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 19:33:09 GMT Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 19:33:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Ben Rosengart To: Mark Murray Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a BSD identd In-Reply-To: <199907101712.TAA13461@gratis.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Mark Murray wrote: > There is the question - what for? identd is of questionable use at best. I used to run a public shell machine, and one of my users cracked someone else's site. Identd made it much easier to figure out who the problem user was. -- Ben UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message