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Date:      Sat, 10 Jul 1999 17:32:42 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        chris@calldei.com
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: a BSD identd 
Message-ID:  <199907102332.RAA33544@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Jul 1999 18:04:07 CDT." <19990710180407.D57198@holly.dyndns.org> 
References:  <19990710180407.D57198@holly.dyndns.org>  <19990710155721.C57198@holly.dyndns.org> <199907102048.WAA14139@gratis.grondar.za> <19990710155721.C57198@holly.dyndns.org> <199907102200.QAA33239@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <19990710180407.D57198@holly.dyndns.org> Chris Costello writes:
:    I was only specifying what I gathered from the RFC.  What was
: ident actually intended for, then?

It was at best a way to track back malicious connections for log files
after the fact.  Only after the initial standard came out did people
try to abuse it for authentication...

Warner


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