[ale] Security risk?

[Geoff Harrison]

On Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 05:11:00PM -0400, Benjamin Dixon wrote:
> 
> Can anyone tell me what this might mean?
> 
> Jul 29 16:13:25 Merlin inetd[3218]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such
> file or
> directory
> Jul 29 16:15:32 Merlin inetd[3300]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such
> file or
> directory
> 
> Came out of the system logs on a RedHat 5.1 system. I see it often and so
> was wondering wha might be wrong?
> 

install identd on your system.  many services typically request the indentity
of the user from the machine in question before connection (irc is a good
example)

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