[17101] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Suggestion for improved identD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu May 21 11:01:02 1998
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 10:20:21 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.93.980521151140.3718Q-100000@staff.uk.psi.com>; from Paul Mansfield <paulm@uk.psi.com> on Thu, May 21, 1998 at 03:14:57PM +0100
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 03:14:57PM +0100, Paul Mansfield wrote:
> > Ok, I almost like this.
> >
> > The only problem I can see is when the dynamic dialup user is still a
> > linux box... but in that case, the administative control _still_ vests
>
> could the ident be intercepted, so that the ident result from the dialler
> was retagged? tricky...
>
> in just the same way that adding SMTP or NNTP headers allows additional
> tracking but doesn't prevent the originator of news or mail from supplying
> their own.
Yeah, you could do a full proxy-ident: retrieve the userid from the
end-user, and then resend it yourself. But all you'd be tagging it as
is: _I_ didn't generate this...
Cheers,
-- jra
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