>> Oh. I though that pidentd was supposed to resolve UIDs locally. >> That's one of the features of the protocol; it provides "here's who >> *I* think the user is" information back to the requester. > >Of course, that's why I thought IDENT was a fairly bogus mechanism >since you're asking the remote system to report on its own users and >someone who controls that machine can report whatever their heart >desires.
But that's precisely what you want! The people who say that have no clue what it is for: it's to help the owner of the *system running pidentd*; not the person who finds the identd entries in his logs. Casper _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
