From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 14 18: 7:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEDA214ECF for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 18:07:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA20478; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 21:07:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 21:07:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Harold Gutch Cc: Sheldon Hearn , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: a BSD identd In-Reply-To: <19990715003415.A4403@foobar.franken.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Harold Gutch wrote: > 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. And pidentd will still be supported. Eventually, I'd like to have those huge majority who do not use DES tokens with pidentd move to the inetd identd (when committed)... > > bye, > Harold > > -- > Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein. > Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message