Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 21:07:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: a BSD identd Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907142105170.20421-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <19990715003415.A4403@foobar.franken.de>
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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 > > -- > <Shabby> 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
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