[illumos-Developer] Integrating identd

[Dan McDonald]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 02:26:08PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
<SNIP!>
> Historically, identd has been one of those protocols that various
> security folks have discouraged the use of, since you can't really rely
> on it to do anything meaningful, and improperly configured systems can
> wind up having identd give away information that it should not.

I discarded a flame-o-gram to the original note, because it's ident I have
the problem with, not the original poster.

I strongly object to ident appearing in base Illumos.  For the reasons cited
above.

Dan