From owner-freebsd-security Mon Feb 4 17:23:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from palanthas.neverending.org (palanthas.neverending.org [167.206.208.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A876837B416 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 17:23:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by palanthas.neverending.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F31EA26EBA; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 20:23:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palanthas.neverending.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE05822EEC; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 20:23:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 20:23:06 -0500 (EST) From: Frank Tobin To: Chris Thomas Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port 113 Traffic In-Reply-To: <20020204200906.5559b083.resopmok@gramsc1.dyndns.org> Message-ID: <20020204202140.H3351-100000@palanthas.neverending.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chris Thomas, at 20:09 -0500 on 2002-02-04, wrote: > As some may know, auth is a potential security risk when providing > actual usernames, due in part to a feature in nmap which, during a > connect scan, will query for the owner of open ports. Using bsidentd, > you will generate a repsonse such as this: man inetd, search for -g. -- Frank Tobin http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message