ident daemon: oIdentd creating a lot of processes

Wes Peters wes at opensail.org
Sun Jan 20 23:21:12 PST 2008


On Jan 20, 2008, at 4:00 AM, Fabian Wenk wrote:
>
> Anjang Aki wrote:
>> i'm using oidentd-2.0.8 installed through /usr/ports/security/oidentd
>> for ident authentication
>
>> is this normal for those who are using oidentd as ident daemon? or
>> should i try other ident daemon?
>
> Is there a reason why you do not use the identd from FreeBSD itself?

Alternativey, use 'liedentd' from ports and it won't give away  
information about your users.  It also won't create any additional  
processes - I promise.

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Wes Peters                                                     wes at opensail.org




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