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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 :)
> 
Which will generally suck, and make Irc Administrators ban whole sites
because the offending users cannot be located and admonested as needed. 

--Ariel

> Regards,
> Nir.
> 
> -- 
> Nir Soffer AKA ScorpioS. scorpios@cs.huji.ac.il
> "Power corrupts.  Absolute power is kind of neat"
>               -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy 1981-1987
> 
> 

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   | Ariel Biener                                            |
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