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On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Aidan Cully wrote:

>I take some issue with that...  ident can be very useful in limited
>situations.  If you've got a multi-user shell service, and don't want
>to ask your users for passwords when they connect over TCP to another
>service you've got, but this service provides different things to
>different users, ident is not a bad way to go.  INN's nnrpd can
>resolve users over ident because of just this situation.
>
>ident is useless once you leave a trusted area.

Which is to say that you translate a problem of imitating a trusted uer
at a trusted IP to a problem of imitating jut the trusted IP?  If that's
your goal, use .rhosts...

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				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com
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