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Re: Where is /usr/sbin/in.identd ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Sangrey)
Thu Nov 28 22:07:22 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 28 Nov 1996 20:24:44 EST."
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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 22:06:12 -0500
From: Mike Sangrey <mike@sojurn.lns.pa.us>
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Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu> wrote:
> >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
Just an FYI:
Keep in mind though that identd is not perfectly secure. My understanding from the discussion a while back on another list was that identd was far better than nothing, but one should not be lulled into a false sense -- identd could be spoofed.
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