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Re: security on Dial-up Systems



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 :)

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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