Re: ident daemon: oIdentd creating a lot of processes

On Jan 21, 2008, at 6:18 AM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:

> Wes Peters <wes@opensail.org> writes:
>> Fabian Wenk <fabian@wenks.ch> writes:
>>> Is there a reason why you do not use the identd from FreeBSD itself?
>> Alternativey, use 'liedentd' from ports and it won't give away
>> information about your users.  It also won't create any additional
>> processes - I promise.
>
> uh, inetd's own identd can also be configured to not reveal any
> information, and doesn't create any additional processes either, so
> what's your upside?

Not having to run inetd?  No configuration?  Simple, easy to audit code?

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Wes Peters                                                     =
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