identd is mostly for IRC. telnet and ftp should work the same with or without identd. Dennis Stout ----- Original Message ----- From: "diyanat" <diyanat@yahoo.com> To: <security-discuss@linuxsecurity.com> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 4:42 AM Subject: shutting down identd (auth) Hi Can identd (auth) service be shutdown and will it be still possible to login remotely through telnet and ftp without identd runing , does shutting down identd effect any other service diyanat ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message.