On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 12:59:00AM +1100, Bill wrote: > should identd be installed, or is it a security risk? > will the firewall (SME 5.12) negate any advantages, or will identd > weaken the firewall ? google produced mixed answers, and mandrake 9.0 > makes it even more fun by calling it pidentd, which may be different . > (makes it hard to find, anyway)(not installed in a standard install) > all comments, clues appreciated
I don't think there's any compelling reason to install and run an identd. Note that some remote services do check for it, so you should have that port actively rejected or not firewalled at all. Otherwise those remote services will seem slow as they do timeouts on ident connections to you. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
