On Wed, 19 May 1999, Warner Losh wrote:

: : 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...

Yeah, but if the guy broke root on my machine, I have much bigger problems
than skript kiddiez attacking other hosts.

That said, identd has come in handy for precisely the reason above several
times.

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)