On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:35:51AM -0400, Greg Owen wrote:
> If you don't run it, that is one less service you have to worry
> about the security of (read, the possibility of buffer overflows).
Under Linux and BSD, you can run identd as ``nobody'' (or any other user
you care to name). Under OpenBSD, you can even run it under chroot (with
a fake /etc/passwd if you want UID -> name mapping). (In Linux, you can
also chroot it if you can loopback mount /proc/net to somewhere inside
the new root directory.)
---Chris K.
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Auckland, New Zealand |_ this is UDP, not TCP after all ;) ---John H.
http://cloud9.hedgee.com/ |_ Robinson, IV
