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Re: security on Dial-up Systems



On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Nir Soffer wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Nimrod Zimerman wrote:
> 
> > Disable identd? identd is used, among others, to allow irc access. I've
> > installed here in.mident which is a cute ident daemon that is highly
> > configurable.
> > 
> >                                                  Nimrod
> 
> True. For people around here who wouldn't like to disclose real usernames
> in their system when connecting to IRC, I would recommend finding and
> installing 'Fake Identd', like I will as soon as I reinstall my Linux :)

man indetnd - there is an option there (-n i believe to not reveal user
names (but rather use numbers).

Gilad.


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