From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 6 13: 8:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from quack.kfu.com (quack.kfu.com [170.1.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E04BB14A14 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 13:08:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer@medusa.kfu.com) Received: from medusa.kfu.com (medusa.kfu.com [170.1.70.5]) by quack.kfu.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA16884 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 13:06:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nsayer@localhost) by medusa.kfu.com (8.9.2/8.8.8) id NAA34065 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 13:06:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nsayer) From: Nick Sayer Message-Id: <199904062006.NAA34065@medusa.kfu.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/security/identify - Imported sources In-Reply-To: <24922.923423806@axl.noc.iafrica.com> from Sheldon Hearn at "Apr 6, 1999 8:36:46 pm" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 13:06:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > On Tue, 06 Apr 1999 12:23:23 CST, Warner Losh wrote: > > > Unless someone has broken root, or has sniffed packets on your network > > and quickly responded with his/her own evil identity. > > Leave the red herrings alone, they're still trying to figure out whether > they're allowed to split their infinitives. ;-) > > The point is that pidentd's primary role is as a security tool, while > identify's isn't. If _this_ isn't true, then identify should stay where > it is. Otherwise, it really should move. How can you say that one is and the other isn't? They both do the same work, one as a client, and one as a server. It's like saying Samba's smbd is a file sharing utility and smbclient isn't. -- echo afnlre@dhnpx.xsh.pbz |\ : "...You tiny-brained wipers tr 'a-z' 'n-za-m' : of other people's bottoms!" or remove nospam in From: line : http://www.kfu.com/~nsayer/ : -- French Taunter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message