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> I run ident and encourage people to do so. I've found it helpful in
> tracking down user badness on mult-user UNIX machines. It's not at
> all useful, of course, if the person doing the badness has root access,
> is on a PC, etc.
When deciding whether to run ident or not, you should be concerned about
how much use will it be to you. The rest of the Internet does not care,
nor trust what your ident server tells them. They however should still
consult it and pass the value returned on to you when identifying somebody
at the other end of a connection. It is up to you, the ident server owner
to decide what to do with that data, whether you can trust it, etc. That
is the purpose of ident, to help the owner of the server, not anybody else.
b.
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Brian J. Murrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
InterLinx Support Services, Inc.
North Vancouver, B.C. 604 983 UNIX
Platform and Brand Independent UNIX Support - R3.2 - R4 - BSD
