Re: listening ports

[Geoff Reedy <vader21 imsa edu>]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 01:33:27AM -0500, Wolfgang Sourdeau <wolfgang@ultim.net> said
> 
> Even if it wasn't, it is still a security problem as other users using
> the same UNIX box Gnome is running on could probably still affect
> applications one is running.
> 
> Maybe running an ident request would solve the problem ?
> 
> 

That would not consistently work. Many people don't run identd, and some that
do configure it so that it doesn't return any useful information.

-- 
Geoffrey Reedy                   Student Network System Administrator
vader21@imsa.edu                    Illinois Math and Science Academy

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