[Exim] Re: ident - 2B|!2B

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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To: Exim (E-mail)
Subject: [Exim] Re: ident - 2B|!2B
+++ Karl Schmidt [exim-users] <07/09/01 21:26 -0500>:
> Has anyone had security problems providing ident (actually in our case
> pident-3.0.12) or are we being over concerned with any risk in providing the
> service?


You can use something like fakeidentd to provide any bogus response you want
in response to an ident request. The "security" as such is mostly the loss
of privacy of your users.

gnu.org, for example, has an ident that responds to requests with "We dont
spy on our users" ...

    -suresh