Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 12:40:01 -0800 (PST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@pele.WURLDLINK.NET> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/14625: pidentd doesn't work correctly for finger since it will only show the username nobody@ instead of root@ when it's performed by the root user. pidentd works fine for root for all other protocols. It seems like pidentd Message-ID: <199910312040.MAA81532@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/14625; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Vincent Poy <vince@pele.WURLDLINK.NET> To: Marcin =?iso-8859-2?Q?Cie=B6lak?= <saper@system.pl> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/14625: pidentd doesn't work correctly for finger since it will only show the username nobody@ instead of root@ when it's performed by the root user. pidentd works fine for root for all other protocols. It seems like pidentd Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:36:16 -1000 (HST) Just wanted to say that Marcin had a very good point. I thought it was a bug since it was working correctly up to 3.2R. It seems like there are a bunch of kids who attack systems as root@somedomain from their linux boxes. Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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