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Xref: sserve comp.protocols.tcp-ip:36266 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:155 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!boulder!boulder.earthnet.net!news.coop.net!village.org!not-for-mail From: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: What uses identd Date: 8 May 1995 11:34:15 -0600 Organization: The Village Lines: 12 Message-ID: <3olkmn$b0s@rover.village.org> References: <3ohon1$i35@news.voicenet.com> <3ojm8b$5tg@park.uvsc.edu> <DJM.95May8110133@jeeves.va.pubnix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rover.village.org In article <DJM.95May8110133@jeeves.va.pubnix.com>, David J. MacKenzie <djm@va.pubnix.com> wrote: >httpd can also be configured to use it in log files. But most systems >have the ident service turned off, or configured to return a bogus >answer. Since it's not authenticated, it's pretty much worthless. True. My ident server, for example, returns Warm-Fuzzy because people want to get warm fuzzies that their protocol in secure, so I give that to them :-) Also makes FTP and mail connections go faster. Warner