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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:10:17 -0500 (CDT)
To: Alexander Derevyanko <der@pc759.cs.msu.su>
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Subject: Re: Anybody know something about port 113 (auth) ?
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Alexander Derevyanko writes:
> While debugging some problems of mail sending from MS Outlook to FreeBSD
> SMTP server,
> I found curious thing - Windowz tryes to access port 113 - (auth) on
> SMTP server. What does it needed from it,
> anybody know ? And may be i can provide such service to it ?

As others have pointed out, you can enable auth with inetd or install
pidentd. If you want to know what it is and what it's good for, Erik
Fair has a nice writeup at <URL:
http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/identd.html >. He also includes a
standalone daemon designed to expose anyone foolish enough to use auth
for authentication purposes.

	<mike


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