On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:47:38AM +0200, Georg v. Zezschwitz wrote:
> However, nowadays this information is neither in the mightest way
> reliable nor helpful in most use cases. It only makes sense if
> your main system you are relaying for is a unix box with many
> !root-users.
Bzzzzzzzzzzt! You have fallen into the standard trap.
ident is for the systems administrators at the host which issued the ident
string to identify which one of their users did anything in particular. If
you claim that my machine has been the originator of some kind of network
abuse and can't provide an ident string for me, then I will waste a lot
more time chasing it down, and probably get bored sooner. You are not supposed
to infer anything about the content of the string, though traditionally it has
been the plaintext username, but merely to pass it on as a token.
Cheers
MBM
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