From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 11 13:52:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8FF41505D for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 13:52:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA28120; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 16:52:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 16:52:10 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Doug Cc: John Polstra , imp@village.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: a BSD identd In-Reply-To: <3788F4D2.17CBD8C7@gorean.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Doug wrote: > 3. Having a built in version of a "real" ident run out of inetd would be > *very* welcome by the people that need it. pidentd is a bloated, buggy pig. Thank you. That's why I wrote it. > > 4. I agree with Sheldon that returning "real" responses by default would be > a bad thing. The current ability to send fake responses is a good thing, > but having the option to do real ident would also be good. > > Finally, Brian might want to search the bugtraq archives before he commits > anything. There have been quite a few identd related discussions, and it > would be points in our favor if we didn't come out with anything that had > known exploits. How in the world could my inetd ident service be exploited? I just fixed the only problematic feature, fake id, to make it not read anything but a regular file and not let you try to use someone else's name. I can't see any way that any part of it could be exploited... > > HTH, > > Doug > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message