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Date:      Tue, 6 Apr 1999 13:06:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/security/identify - Imported sources
Message-ID:  <199904062006.NAA34065@medusa.kfu.com>
In-Reply-To: <24922.923423806@axl.noc.iafrica.com> from Sheldon Hearn at "Apr 6, 1999  8:36:46 pm"

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> 
> 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.

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