From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Oct 31 12:40: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A07314E63 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 12:40:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id MAA81532; Sun, 31 Oct 1999 12:40:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 12:40:01 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199910312040.MAA81532@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Vincent Poy Subject: Re: ports/14625: pidentd doesn't work correctly for finger since it will only show the username nobody@ instead of root@ when it's performed by the root user. pidentd works fine for root for all other protocols. It seems like pidentd Reply-To: Vincent Poy Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/14625; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Vincent Poy To: Marcin =?iso-8859-2?Q?Cie=B6lak?= Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/14625: pidentd doesn't work correctly for finger since it will only show the username nobody@ instead of root@ when it's performed by the root user. pidentd works fine for root for all other protocols. It seems like pidentd Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:36:16 -1000 (HST) Just wanted to say that Marcin had a very good point. I thought it was a bug since it was working correctly up to 3.2R. It seems like there are a bunch of kids who attack systems as root@somedomain from their linux boxes. Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message