In message <Pine.NEB.3.95.990519154759.26923m-100000@apb.iafrica.com> Alan Barrett writes:
: The cookie from *my* ident server is intended to help *me* determine
: which of my users did something naughty with your service.  That's it.
: That's all that the ident protocol is useful for.

Unless, of course, this naughty user broke root first, or was able to
break root on a machine that was able to send the response to the
ident request faster than your identd responded...

Warner