On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 06:41:34 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: >Rod.. Whitworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 22:03:55 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >Personally, I prefer not to reveal the usernames behind the client >> >connections I'm making, so I use nullidentd. >> What's better about that than making the flags -Hole on the inetd >> settings for identd? > >Well, for one, when I started out on OpenBSD 3.0, there wasn't a -H >flag.... >http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=identd&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+3.0&arch=i386&format=html > >I'm not in the habit of re-checking the man pages for every command >with every new release (nor am I subscribed to the CVS commit list), >so I didn't know this feature had been added. > >Meanwhile, nullidentd does precisely what I want it to do, so there's >very little reason for me to switch.
Other than not having to remember to copy in the source and recompile for each release as opposed to a quick vi to set the flags? Maybe those (Hole) would be a good default? I may be wrong -if I am correction is not considered insulting. I've only been on board since 2.6 but laziness is the virtue of the effiency police 8-) New users who are just starting >out, though, may prefer to use the in-tree identd. > Surely! >-- >Greg Wooledge | "Truth belongs to everybody." >[EMAIL PROTECTED] | - The Red Hot Chili Peppers >http://wooledge.org/~greg/ | > >From the land "down under": Australia. Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over? Do NOT CC me - I am subscribed to the list. Replies to the sender address will fail except from the list-server.
