There are services that use identd, though I can't remember them all. I think
that by removing it, you may actually incur delays (although small) when doing
some things. For example I think sendmail and maybe even ssh use identd, so if
you stop it then at times during the initiation of a connection there maybe a
time out while the program asks what user is trying to initiate the connection
and gets no response.
Then again I am probably wrong about everything so don't bother reading this
message. Maybe that should have gone at the beginning?
Matt.
Bernhard Luder wrote:
> So you are saying, if I do not need user authentication I do not need it?
>
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> Sendmail also appears to try to use it, but doesn't fuss if it is not
> available.
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> On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
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> > On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 04:10:02PM +1000, Bernhard L?der wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > this might be a silly question, but what is identd used for? Does it
> need to
> > > run? What for?
> > > Bernhard L?der
> >
> > Rather than try to explain it myself, I'll just quote part of RFC 1413:
> > 1. INTRODUCTION
> >
> > The Identification Protocol (a.k.a., "ident", a.k.a., "the Ident
> > Protocol") provides a means to determine the identity of a user of a
> > particular TCP connection. Given a TCP port number pair, it returns
> > a character string which identifies the owner of that connection on
> > the server's system.
> >
> > I hope this clears it up. AFAIK, it's not often used anymore, except by
> > some IRC services.
> >
> > -Andrew.
> >
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