From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 10:39:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA18957 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 10:39:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA18948 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 10:39:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA18406; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 11:35:02 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602211835.LAA18406@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: sendmail/identd To: swaits@pr.erau.edu (Stephen Waits) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 11:35:01 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Stephen Waits" at Feb 20, 96 11:36:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Okay, this really has NOTHING to do with FreeBSD.. but I'm asking anyway > because some damn nice and smart (Namely TLambert and GAWollman) fellas > are at the top of this list :) > > Where the hell is all the nifty identd stuff logged by sendmail.. In > otherwords, I have user x fake mailing user y and I want to know who user > x is. [We are a University - we can legally do such things:) ] Your confidence may be misplaced. I don't think identd stuff is logged at all. Plus it's trivial to make identd lie, if you have root on any box anywhere. I think you get "(Unverified)" following the name; your users have to know to look for that. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.