In message <199907101949.vaa14...@gratis.grondar.za>, Mark Murray wrote: } > On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Mark Murray wrote: } > } > > There is the question - what for? identd is of questionable use at best. } > } > I used to run a public shell machine, and one of my users cracked } > someone else's site. Identd made it much easier to figure out who the } > problem user was. } } That represents tiny percentage of identd use. The rest is noise. } } Pidentd+DES _is_ useful in the situation you mention above. It is } on average useless to most security folk, as it can also be used } to obfuscate the problem. Crack root on the box, and identd is no } longer trustworthy.
Just because it's useless in some situations doesn't mean it's not useful in others. Yours is an argument against _misusing_ identd, not an argument against _using_ it. -- Jon Hamilton hamil...@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
