Re: Is ident secure?

[vze2rfri@verizon.net (Brian P. Flaherty)]

I have had a lot of problems running non-Debian software when I
disable ident.  It seems like the licensing daemons expect to find
the license over a network and so, even though the license file is
probably sitting next to them in the directory, the daemon goes out
the interface card, comes back in, and then gets the license.  I have
tried to route them through, and some do but others won't.

As another example, I have to have a telnet service running for
another license daemon.  I am still working on this networking stuff,
but right now I have everything running locally only.  The respective
ports are closed with ipchains and also in hosts.allow, hosts.deny,
and the xinetd.conf.

It sounds like we have a similar problem.  I read all this stuff, "If
you don't know what it is, you don't need it." and "If you don't need
it, shut it down."  One of the things I read said to shut off lpd.  I
know there have been all kinds of problems with lpd, but how do I
print then?  I guess the message is that balancing security and
usability is the issue.

-- 
Brian P. Flaherty

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