> 
> Every user is notifyed as root by the talk daemon and by the write
> application.
> 
> mariah [7:08pm]{test}[~]> whoami
> test
> talk rj45
> 
> and from rj45 I see...
> 
> Message from Talk_Daemon@mariah.bo.infn.it at 19:08 ...  
> talk: connection requested by root@mariah.bo.infn.it.    
> talk: respond with:  talk root@mariah.bo.infn.it         
> 
> this happpens with every user.
> 
> anyone knows why ?

No... It works fine for me.  Have a look at the
following information, compare and see if you
can find any significant differences:

mariah# finger
Login    Name                 Tty  Idle  Login Time   Office     Office Phone
root     Charlie Root         *co    10  Tue 21:49
test     Charlie Test          p0     1  Tue 22:09
toor     Bourne-again Superus  p1     -  Tue 22:10
mariah#

Message from Talk_Daemon@mariah at 22:13 ...
talk: connection requested by test@mariah.
talk: respond with:  talk test@mariah


mariah# ls -l /usr/libexec/*talk* /usr/bin/*talk*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  20480 Nov 16  1999 /usr/bin/talk
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  16384 Nov 16  1999 /usr/libexec/ntalkd
mariah# grep talk /etc/inetd.conf
ntalk           dgram   udp     wait    nobody:tty      /usr/libexec/ntalkd
ntalkd
mariah# uname -a
NetBSD mariah 1.4X NetBSD 1.4X (AWAX) #1: Sat May  6 11:25:13 GMT 2000     toor@
mariah:/usr/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/AWAX vax
mariah#