[936] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
Re: [linux-security] about in.identd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave G.)
Sat Jul 20 20:06:29 1996
From: "Dave G." <daveg@escape.com>
To: Elliot@escape.com, Lee@escape.com, <sopwith@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 10:50:13 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
Most ident implementations need sys/kmem group permissions to find out who
owns a port. For example, on Solaris /bin/netstat is setGID
On Linux that is not the case however (netstat is not set*ID) -
an identd specifically for Linux should probably be written.
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I am not sure which copies of identd use/proc, but the one that I had
looked at used /proc. There should be no need to rewrite anything. (except
inetd.conf :-))
Dave G.
