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Date:      Sat, 10 Jul 1999 18:04:07 -0500
From:      Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: a BSD identd
Message-ID:  <19990710180407.D57198@holly.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <199907102200.QAA33239@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 04:00:02PM -0600
References:  <19990710155721.C57198@holly.dyndns.org> <199907102048.WAA14139@gratis.grondar.za> <19990710155721.C57198@holly.dyndns.org> <199907102200.QAA33239@harmony.village.org>

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On Sat, Jul 10, 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <19990710155721.C57198@holly.dyndns.org> Chris Costello writes:
> :    The whole point of ident was -- and still is -- to
> : authenticate or verify who created a specific TCP connection.
> 
> NO.  The IDENT protocol was never intended to authenticate who was on
> the other end.  *NEVER*.  People ABUSED it as such, but its value is
> only as good as the person providing the information.

   I was only specifying what I gathered from the RFC.  What was
ident actually intended for, then?

-- 
Chris Costello                                <chris@calldei.com>
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