From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 10 16:23: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from leap.innerx.net (leap.innerx.net [38.179.176.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED2F14C59 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:22:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org (ip39.houston3.tx.pub-ip.psi.net [38.12.169.39]) by leap.innerx.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EAF43E857; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 19:05:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA65356; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 18:04:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris) Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 18:04:07 -0500 From: Chris Costello To: Warner Losh Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a BSD identd Message-ID: <19990710180407.D57198@holly.dyndns.org> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: <19990710155721.C57198@holly.dyndns.org> <199907102048.WAA14139@gratis.grondar.za> <19990710155721.C57198@holly.dyndns.org> <199907102200.QAA33239@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.3i In-Reply-To: <199907102200.QAA33239@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 04:00:02PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jul 10, 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <19990710155721.C57198@holly.dyndns.org> Chris Costello writes: > : The whole point of ident was -- and still is -- to > : authenticate or verify who created a specific TCP connection. > > NO. The IDENT protocol was never intended to authenticate who was on > the other end. *NEVER*. People ABUSED it as such, but its value is > only as good as the person providing the information. I was only specifying what I gathered from the RFC. What was ident actually intended for, then? -- Chris Costello You might have mail. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message