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Date:      Thu, 22 Feb 1996 13:10:32 -0700 (MST)
From:      Stephen Waits <swaits@pr.erau.edu>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail/identd
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.91.960222130631.24277B-100000@moon.pr.erau.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199602211835.LAA18406@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> I don't think identd stuff is logged at all.

Actually, it is.  (Thanks to Guy Helmer for help).  It's logged in 
syslog's mail.info as well as in the message's headers.  It says 
something like relay=username@host in the syslog and Receved from 
username@host by localhost in the message header.

Additionally, I could ONLY make this work if I used the "-i" mode of 
pidentd.  The "-w" mode simply would not work with sendmail and I didn't 
try running identd in standalone mode.  

I found this pretty weird, but sorta said, "oh well"..  I'd rather my 
inetd not get so hammered..

Any ideas?

> Plus it's trivial to make identd lie, if you have root on any box
> anywhere.

I realize this - but I only use the information for auditing purposes - 
not authentication, and only from local-trusted-hosts..

--Steve (http://pr.erau.edu/~swaits)



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