From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 14 15:35:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from foobar.franken.de (foobar.franken.de [194.94.249.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A0215870; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:35:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from logix@foobar.franken.de) Received: (from logix@localhost) by foobar.franken.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id AAA04653; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:34:20 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19990715003415.A4403@foobar.franken.de> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:34:15 +0200 From: Harold Gutch To: "Brian F. Feldman" , Sheldon Hearn Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a BSD identd References: <49928.931911388@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Brian F. Feldman on Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 11:47:33PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 11:47:33PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > We don't _need_ pidentd anymore. It will load down a system more than > the inetd's implementation of ident will. Therefore, pidentd should be > phased out. Other than that, pidentd should be using > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~green/freebsd4.c and not linking with libkvm. > pidentd supports DES-encrypted tokens as replies instead of the plaintext usernames. As long as your identd (or any other replacement) does not support this, there is still valid use for pidentd. bye, Harold -- Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein. Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message