From owner-cvs-ports Thu Oct 12 10:44:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-cvs-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA23203 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:44:11 -0700 Received: from precipice.shockwave.com (precipice.shockwave.com [171.69.108.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA23171 ; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:43:58 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by precipice.shockwave.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA08710; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:43:19 -0700 Message-Id: <199510121743.KAA08710@precipice.shockwave.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Satoshi Asami , CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/security/libident - Imported sources In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Oct 1995 09:23:39 BST." <282.813486219@critter.tfs.com> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:43:18 -0700 From: Paul Traina Sender: owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk From: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/security/libident - Imported sources > IDENT is ***NOT*** a security protocol. Please remove it from security, > it is an ACCOUNTING protocol at best, and utter horse-shit at worse. > But even a shitty authentication tool is a security tool... excuse me, let me whisper :-) :-) :-) it's not an authentication tool, I said accounting. it is not inteded for authentication or security. it should not be in this section of the repository it should not even be in the repository (imho) because people make mistakes like this.