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Re: inetd



On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Ben Nes Michael wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I get this allots on my messages file
> 
> mail inetd[16335]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory
> 
> Which associate with (in inetd.conf)
> 
> auth   stream  tcp     nowait    nobody    /usr/sbin/in.identd in.identd
> -l -e -o
> 
> The file does not exist, and any way i don't know what is it :-(

You mean, you did NOT RTFM ? man in.identd ?

> Can any one explain or forward me to the appropriate docs ?

Ohh. Miki, get into inetd.conf and put a '#' in front of each and every
service that you do not serve NOW then restart inetd. The services that
you do not serve are probably everything except http and ftp (?) and named
(?), maybe telnetd (?) AFTER you secure the root ttys. 

You can leave echo, daytime, nntp (do you serve news ?) on.

Some ppl will scold me for this and I am not a sysadmin but imho it is for
your own good.

Also, try to find out from the logs who was trying to use identd. identd
can be used to hack into running TCP connections afaik. I'll attach the
manpage of in.identd in private email.

Peter