From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 12:48:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC1837B40A for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 12:48:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b143.otenet.gr [212.205.244.151]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4UJmGdO026210; Thu, 30 May 2002 22:48:18 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4UJmBV7015231; Thu, 30 May 2002 22:48:15 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4UJ7nMO013518; Thu, 30 May 2002 22:07:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 22:07:49 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: Re: IRC vs identd vs inetd.conf vs me! Message-ID: <20020530190749.GD6862@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020529195825.U3080-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020529195825.U3080-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-05-29 20:00 -0700, Peter Leftwich wrote: > *** Banned: Install Identd for access (2001/4/18 09.20) > *** Closing Link: mrmeatie[root@255.255.255.255] (Banned) > *** Connection closed from irc.lightning.net: Remote end closed connection > *** Connecting to port 6667 of server irc.lightning.net > *** Looking up your hostname... > *** Checking Ident > *** Found your hostname > *** Banned: Install Identd for access (2001/4/18 09.20) The file /etc/inetd.conf contains a very nice and commented part that explains how you can enable the 'internal' identd/auth service of inetd. You need to enable this in order to connect to the specific IRC server. If you have edited away everything in /etc/inetd.conf you can still read those comments from /usr/src/etc/inetd.conf. Even if you don't have the sources installed, you can always view the latest inetd.conf file through the web, by pointing your browser to: http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/src/etc/inetd.conf Read the comments carefully. You will easily find out how identd/auth can be enabled. > Yes I realize I shouldn't irc (breathe, sleep, or fart) as root, but hey. No, and there are a few very good reasons why not. You might end up receiving by DCC some file that 'accidentally' happens to overwrite some critical file, like for instance /etc/pwd.db. And when that happens you'll hate it. Cheers, - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message