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Subject: Re: ident daemon: oIdentd creating a lot of processes
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Wes Peters <wes@opensail.org> writes:
> Fabian Wenk <fabian@wenks.ch> writes:
> > Is there a reason why you do not use the identd from FreeBSD itself?
> Alternativey, use 'liedentd' from ports and it won't give away
> information about your users.  It also won't create any additional
> processes - I promise.

uh, inetd's own identd can also be configured to not reveal any
information, and doesn't create any additional processes either, so
what's your upside?

DES
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