"Peter McCarthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is the identd deamon all about ?
> How does it work and do I really need to run it ?
> I have real the man pages and it says it uses some User ID protocol. But if I
> run do not run it everything seems to work ok, at least so far...
> The reason why I ask is I believe it may be possible that someone is trying to
> hack my box RH 6.1 as my modem has been going crazy and a bunch of these
> in.identd deamons are running for some unknown reason. either a hack attempt or
> something else funny is going on.
>
> Thanx
>
> Peter McCarthy
>
>
It helps you out if one of your users tries to break to
someone else's machine, or otherwise tries to abuse someone
else's system. The sys admin of that system can contact
you with fairly reliable info about which of your users
is breaking the rules.
See the Security-HOWTO, and the man page.
Most irc servers require you to run it before they accept
a connection from you.
You can also enable logging, and that can tell you why
inetd is starting the daemons.
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