[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 at 13:56, JohnHomer wrote:
>> sir jijo, i think you're looking for "masqidentd" or "midentd". and i
>> agree with you, socks is a better approach.
>
>No, I'm not looking for masidentd or midentd because the IRC session _is_
>passing through a SOCKS5 proxy (danted in my case). Unfortunately danted
>runs as the unprivileged user, which is set to nobody. A "ps ax" on the
>system will show that indeed the processes are running as nobody, hence
>the corrent identd reply.
i was thinkin of masquerading + masqidentd, not masqidentd + socks. sorry sir for a
not so clear statement.
>
>I could use IP Masquerading instead and run masqidentd but somehow I'm
>inclined to finding a proper SOCKS5 proxy that can run as the user and not
>as nobody. But then that would need authentication and SOCKS5's
>authentication is not meant to be secure but meant to help with
>accounting/audit so ... haay. :)
"the user"?
>
>Maybe I should just go IP Masquerading and run masqidentd. Hahaha. Anyway
i think so should go for wingate. :) :9
>it's not critical as of now.
>
>What's more critical, I think, is the evaluation of IP Masquerading vs
>SOCKS5 for the following applications:
>
> o ICQ
> o IRC
>
>In particular are there operability issues when running multiple
>connections through the server (ie: multiple IRC connections to the same
>or different servers; multiple ICQ connections).
most irc servers doesnt allow multiple irc connections. thats a common issue. unless
sum1 else here know of sumtin that will deal with this kind of situation.
>
>Anybody? :)
>
> --> Jijo
>
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JHon, hi papa dek. :)
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