Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 17:32:42 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: chris@calldei.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a BSD identd Message-ID: <199907102332.RAA33544@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Jul 1999 18:04:07 CDT." <19990710180407.D57198@holly.dyndns.org> References: <19990710180407.D57198@holly.dyndns.org> <19990710155721.C57198@holly.dyndns.org> <199907102048.WAA14139@gratis.grondar.za> <19990710155721.C57198@holly.dyndns.org> <199907102200.QAA33239@harmony.village.org>
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In message <19990710180407.D57198@holly.dyndns.org> Chris Costello writes: : I was only specifying what I gathered from the RFC. What was : ident actually intended for, then? It was at best a way to track back malicious connections for log files after the fact. Only after the initial standard came out did people try to abuse it for authentication... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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