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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@iafrica.com>
To: Nick Sayer <nsayer@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/security/identify - Imported sources 
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On Fri, 02 Apr 1999 11:07:31 PST, Nick Sayer wrote:

>   Log Message:
>   Add "identify" daemon wrapper. Allows one to add ident lookup and logging
>   to arbitrary daemons (like telnetd or fingerd).

Since a remote host's response to your ident request offers you nothing
in terms of security, I'd _strongly_ recommend that this port be moved
to net and _not_ left in security, where it's bound to mislead the
uninitiated.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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