is it possible to scan for possible exploits using identd?

1998-06-11 Thread Blair Craft
As I understand identd, it allows someone from a remote computer to find out who owns processes running on my computer. I am curious to know if this has recently been used to gather information that would be useful to someone trying to exploit a machine? I was browsing my /var/log/messages file

Re: is it possible to scan for possible exploits using identd?

1998-06-11 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Blair Craft wrote: As I understand identd, it allows someone from a remote computer to find out who owns processes running on my computer. I am curious to know if this has recently been used to gather information that would be useful to someone trying to exploit a