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Date:      16 Jul 1999 14:30:52 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf src/usr.sbin/inetd Makefile inetd.c
Message-ID:  <xzpvhbku683.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:26:11 -0700"
References:  <199907150726.AAA00946@dingo.cdrom.com>

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Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> writes:
> I'd have to say I support Brian's judgement here, although on 
> reflection I think that leaving the code #idfef'ed out is a bad idea, 
> as it exposes it to potential unchecked rot.  By all means leave the 
> service disabled in the standard inetd.conf and make it possible to 
> elide it (along with the other internal services) if required.

Yet another argument for divorcing internal service names from port
names.

# Backwards-compatible entry (fake identd)
ident  stream  tcp     nowait  root    internal

# New-style fake identd
ident  stream  tcp     nowait  root    internal fakeident

# New-style real identd
ident  stream  tcp     nowait  root    internal ident

and of course, 'ident' can be replaced with 'auth' or 'tap' in any of
the above examples without functional change.

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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