[938] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
Re: [linux-security] about in.identd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt)
Sat Jul 20 20:06:33 1996
To: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
From: panzer@dhp.com (Matt)
Date: 18 Jul 1996 23:54:23 -0400
Brian Mitchell (brian@saturn.net) wrote:
: The rfc specifies the maximum length for ident responses is 512 bytes, so
The RFC may state one thing. There are MANY, MANY, non rfc compliant
programs out there....(Both ident servers and things that people create to
respond to ident requests) Always remember that. You may want to check
that your ident server is only returning 512 characters, but the biggest
problem is that many programs that are written to parse the data from an
ident response are expecting no more than 8 characters... :)
--
-Matt (panzer@dhp.com) DI-1-9026
"That which can never be enforced should not be prohibited."
