der Mouse writes:
>That's fine if you care more about making a religious point than you do
>about keeping your system secure.  The security benefits accruing to a
>site running a (real) pidentd are very real, if you either (a) have any

Pardon my ignorance, but what is pidentd?

>As for the remark that NetBSD's sendmail should come with use of ident
>disabled, I strongly disagree.  If you're attacked from my site, for

Given that the answer given to an ident request _cannot_ be trusted -
as several folk have demonstrated, what it the point?  Its just
another avenue for being attacked.

--sjg

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Simon J. Gerraty        <sjg@quick.com.au>

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