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Re: Where is /usr/sbin/in.identd ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skull)
Thu Nov 28 20:28:30 1996
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 20:24:44 -0500
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From: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
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>Nov 27 17:33:11 rezkbox inetd[407]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such
>file or directory
>
>showing up in /var/log/messages . Indeed, there is no such file on my
>machine. It seems to be referenced by the following line in
>/etc/inetd.conf:
>
># Authentication
>#
>auth stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/in.identd
>in.identd -l -e -o
>#
>
>So, what does in.identd *do* exactly ? Do I need it? Can I get along
>fine without it? Should I comment out this line in inetd.conf ?
>
>Charles Rezk
Charles, identd is the ident protocol which allows one receiving machine
talk to the sending machine and figure out who you really are. I.e if you
are joeblow@abc.org normally, the machine knows you are logged in from
abc.org, but ident allows the machine to know you are joeblow also which
it wouldn't already know. As you can guess, this can be a nice security
feature. You could run without it, but I recommend using it personally.
Darron
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