Dear Users, I am confused about what the ident daemon does.
"Rute User's tutorial" identifies it as a possible security hole. Is it? A few days ago messages like "identd: started" started showing in my syslog, and seeing there had been some kind of expoit, I updated the package. Following the readme, I replaced the "ident" line in inet.conf with an "auth" line. This seemed necessary in order to bring IP masquerading up to speed. I wonder why. In the ident2 package readme, it says IP masquerading is not supported but that essentially (?) the same results can be obtained by sending random replies, so I entered the random option in the inet.conf command line. Well, today my auth log records random replies being sent to some IP I don't know. This is what's supposed to happen, right? Thanks. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
