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> You might have mail. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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