From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 10 14:57:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9399814CB7; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 14:57:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA10578; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 15:57:38 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id PAA33197; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 15:55:44 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199907102155.PAA33197@harmony.village.org> To: Ben Rosengart Subject: Re: a BSD identd Cc: Mark Murray , "Brian F. Feldman" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 10 Jul 1999 19:33:09 -0000." References: Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 15:55:43 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Ben Rosengart writes: : 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. Unfortunately, I've seen the dark side of identd which makes me *HATE* it with a passion. There have been several places that I worked that ran identd, but from which I never sent mail from. The spammers started hitting me there.... They got the address from the ident replies.... From this, I'm *NEVER* going to run a identd that gives out real names.... Hence "Warm-Fuzzy" in my fake script. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message