On Fri, 09 Feb 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian spewed into the ether:
> But identd is a rather useful thing on your side of the network (with
> local clients etc).
True.
> > Just read the last few messages on Securityfocus (Either Bugtraq or
> > focus-linux) on identd, and you will know why it should be blocked.
BTW, for those of you who need identd, please use pidentd instead.
Its a bit safer in that it doesn't reveal too much information.
Devdas Bhagat
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