[6378] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Inetd: security questions.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prasanth Kumar)
Wed Nov 27 02:25:56 1996
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 23:17:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Prasanth Kumar <pak@best.com>
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It would be the line with identd in the /etc/inetd.conf file. However
I think some sites do not let you access without doing this I think.
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Borg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I visit some www sites and connect to certain hosts,
> soimetimes I get something like that in my /var/log/messages:
>
> Nov 26 20:23:32 borg identd[7049]: Connection from somehost.com
> Nov 26 20:23:32 borg identd[7049]: Successful lookup: 1257 , 23 : vlad
>
> (sometimes it's a different port such as 80 but it always
> says "Succesful lookup: blah blah : vlad)
>
> What does it mean and what are they trying to do? How do I
> disable that "feature" letting others look at my user name?
> They are not doing it through finger or smtp because there's
> nothing in /var/log/secure!
>
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