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From: Patrick Colbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: Process httpd and in.identd - Are they needed?
> Ident is a protcol that lets you quirey a machine for some info so long
> as it is running an ident demon (identd in the case of Linux). Some mail
> servers will quirey your machine using ident before they will accept
> mail from you. This is not that common but does happen and can be a real
> headache to work out why your mail is rejected unless you know about
> this. Also some IRC servers check you out with ident. It is considered
> by many people to be a security risk and so it is often advised that it
> should be disabled, just remeber if something rejects your mail that
> might be why.
>
> Pat
>
> > identd is an authentication mechanism used primarily by sendmail I
believe.
> > It is normally started out of inetd, but I'm a little confused about
why
> > it's showing up so many times in your process table - unless you were
> > sending/receiving mail at the time and that might explain it. It's
mostly
> > a matter of preference whether you run it or not - I normally don't,
> > someone else might be able to explain why it's important that you do.
In
> > any case, you'll need to edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment that line out
if
> > you want to disable it. You may want to comment any other unwanted
> > services out as well. Then you'll need to re-start inetd one of two
ways:
>
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