> Probably written by people who don't understand its purpose. identd
> removes the anonymity of TCP connections coming from a single machine
> by allowing the remote end to ask for a magic cookie which, when
> presented to the administrator of the machine, will enable them to
> identify the user who made the tcp connection. If someone on a
> particular machine is misbehaving, this allows the system
> administrator to take action.
What are other people who run mail relays doing with identd? Since
all the idents are 'qmail' ids, it doesn't serve it's designed purpose. Do
people enable it to speed connections which request it, or disable it
because it doesn't do much?
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