From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 0:50:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de (merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5FC37BEC7 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 00:50:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de) Received: from caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de by merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de with ESMTP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 4 May 2000 09:50:50 +0200 Received: from sun12.mni.fh-giessen.de ([134.176.183.112]) by caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #6) id 12nGNB-0006Hd-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 4 May 2000 09:48:38 +0200 Received: from localhost (hg9456@localhost) by sun12.mni.fh-giessen.de (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03901 for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 09:51:01 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: sun12.mni.fh-giessen.de: hg9456 owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 09:51:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ariel Burbaickij X-Sender: hg9456@sun12 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: uneasy about permissions identd is running with Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I set up identd(pident port) basically using the suggested row in /etc/inetd.conf.Save,it does not run with kmem:kmem(does not run means no irc servers no fun ) I changed it to root and now I am uneasy ist OK to leave it so or should i undertake soething to coerce ident to run with less privileges ? Regards, Ariel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message