On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 12:10:48AM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote: > > On 23-Sep-2000 William Jensen wrote: > > Is the ~ in front of your name in IRC due to the lack of auth installed? > > I cannot find identd anywhere with dpkg. I've tried dpkg -l|grep iden. > > When I had deb installed on another system I somehow picked up identd and > > I was not listed as ~ in name so that got me thinking. Anyway, what is > > the std debian auth package? <-- assuming this is the issue? > > A standard ident daemon returns the owner of a specified connection. > IRC servers use this to get your username (on your machine) when you > connect to them. > What they do if you don't have an identd installed is totally up to them -- > I can't tell you that.
My experience is that some refuse to let you on until you install auth or say you are not authorized to use the server. That is why I wanted to get it installed. > > Running a vanilla identd is a Bad Thing IMHO. It helps attackers identify > usernames and find out under what UIDs daemons are running (eg. if sendmail > is running as root). Is there a secure way of providing the information an IRC server wants, while rejecting the cracker's attempts? > > ----- > $ apt-cache search --names-only identd > pidentd-des - TCP/IP IDENT protocol server with DES support. > oidentd - Replacement ident daemon > midentd - identd replacement with masquerading support. > pidentd - TCP/IP IDENT protocol server. > ----- > pidentd is the standard one > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >