I wasn't confused. Like I say, the only thing I know of that identd is for is IRC. *shrugs* Tells hte IRC server about you. Course, it also relys on the honor system... Fundamental Design Flaw if you ask me. But, what the heck, it's not like it's a critical thing anyways. At least, _I'VE_ nver had problems after not bothering enough with it to enable it in the first place =) Dennis Stout ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas J Hunley" <doug@hunley.homeip.net> To: <security-discuss@linuxsecurity.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:57 PM Subject: Re: shutting down identd (auth) BUNTER MATTHEW spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: > Use xinetd, you can get security settings down to fine details using > xinetd. > a nice inetd replacement is tcpserver. I can recommend it. > jan you're both confused. he's talking about identd on port 113. not inetd (which runs identd). just edit /etc/inetd.conf and comment out the identd line. no boggie -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org We will talk about time travel yesterday. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
