On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Martin C. Walker wrote:
> I have recently cut over to a new isp. the new isp requires
> me to accept the ident service at the firewall where my previous
> provider did not. what problems does this leave me open to ?
>
The biggest problem you are open to is remote sites that you access
can get lists of users names. (especially sites that run tcp wrapper)
This can be used to gather users lists, which depending on your
security policy can be bad. (do you allow finger? or smtp's vrfy
or expn?)
> also, does anyone know when 2.1c will be available for solaris ?
i dunno
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