On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:16:55PM +0100, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:48:36PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> >
> > > > What processes use identd?
>
> The RFC (sorry, forgot the number) for the protocol says it's only
> used for the finger service. When I asked this list the same question
> a while ago, I was told it's also used in irc servers.
It's also used by ftp. Here's a quick dump from recent CERT advisory:
"WU-FTPD can perform RFC 931 authentication when accepting inbound
connections from clients. RFC 931 defines the Authentication Server
Protocol, and is obsoleted by RFC 1413 which defines the Identity Protocol.
RFC 931 is commonly known as "auth" or "authd", and RFC 1413 is commonly
known "ident" or "identd". Both are named after the daemon that commonly
provides the service.
When using RFC 931 authentication, WU-FTPD will request ident information
before authorizing a connection request from a client. The auth or ident
service running on the client returns user-specific information, allowing
WU-FTPD to make authentication decisions based on data in the ident
response."
Cheers,
.../Ed
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