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Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 17:32:42 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@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


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