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On Tue, 06 Apr 1999 12:23:23 CST, Warner Losh wrote:

> Unless someone has broken root, or has sniffed packets on your network
> and quickly responded with his/her own evil identity.

Leave the red herrings alone, they're still trying to figure out whether
they're allowed to split their infinitives. ;-)

The point is that pidentd's primary role is as a security tool, while
identify's isn't. If _this_ isn't true, then identify should stay where
it is. Otherwise, it really should move.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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