From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 11 11: 3:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A9A114BEC for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 11:03:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA25260; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 14:03:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 14:03:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Wes Peters , Warner Losh , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: a BSD identd In-Reply-To: <92351.931689454@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Sun, 11 Jul 1999 01:49:59 -0400, "Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > > > inetd already has the built-in equivalent to that. Maybe it's possible > > to make a REAL ident (*cough* the one I wrote) an option, inetd has > > that service off by default. > > That sounds much more like it. I will say that I suspect this is a bad > move. The more I think about it, the more I think we don't want the > kitchen sink in there. > > Inetd only offers a limited auth service to prevent delays in the > servicing of requests from local users on remote hosts. Anyone who wants > to use the auth service for other things should probably use a > specialized piece of software to do that. > > I don't think inetd needs this functionality built in. I think that what > you really want is pidentd imported into the base system. And while it's > noble to want a GNU-free base system and I applaud efforts in that > direction, you should probably slow down and read pidentd's license > agreement. :-) > > Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with leaving pidentd as > a port. I find pidentd gross, to say the least. I don't see why not to kill it... And this service is very small, so it doesn't make inetd "huge". It's not feeping creaturism because I replaced the ident service there with a working one. > > > Then the user can select one of two lines for a real ident > > service or a fake one. > > DES has some interesting ideas in this direction. Take a look at closed > PR 11796 if and when you start thinking about how to implement this. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message