> Who on earth added this feature to ident? It makes no sense at all;
> you might as well just turn ident off.
>
> Keep in mind that the token that ident returns is for *you*, not
> the remote administrator. The remote administrator couldn't care
> less whether it's a real ID or not; he will give that to you in
> the event something has to be traced, and you have to be able to
> figure out from it which user initiated that network connection.
I remember I was getting a lot of spam and a Portal staff member told
me to look at http://www.junkbusters.com/. Somewhere there I read
something that made me want my identd to return HIDDEN-USER. It's for
spam more than it is for security.
Kevin
-- Kevin Chu kevin@portal.ca http://members.tripod.com/~super_kevin/