Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 16:52:10 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, imp@village.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: a BSD identd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907111649160.27818-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <3788F4D2.17CBD8C7@gorean.org>
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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
>
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