Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:10:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Alexander Derevyanko <der@pc759.cs.msu.su> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody know something about port 113 (auth) ? Message-ID: <14811.25721.808949.985524@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <127590936@toto.iv>
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Alexander Derevyanko writes: > While debugging some problems of mail sending from MS Outlook to FreeBSD > SMTP server, > I found curious thing - Windowz tryes to access port 113 - (auth) on > SMTP server. What does it needed from it, > anybody know ? And may be i can provide such service to it ? As others have pointed out, you can enable auth with inetd or install pidentd. If you want to know what it is and what it's good for, Erik Fair has a nice writeup at <URL: http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/identd.html >. He also includes a standalone daemon designed to expose anyone foolish enough to use auth for authentication purposes. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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