Hi On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 04:08:09PM +0200, Steven Thompson wrote:

Hi I would like to know which services are dependent on the "Ident service". As I'm configuring a firewall server and would like to if I can shut the service down. You can shut the service down. Today it is almost only used for IRC connects. In general identd reveals a lot of information to your system for the hacker, for example which user runs a certain service, so it is a source of information.

If you do have IRC users behind the firewall, then reject the packets instead of denying them, otherwise big timeouts will occur, because no packet is sent back, what tells the ircserver, there's no ident running. MfG/Regards, Alexander -- Alexander Reelsen http://joker.rhwd.de ref@linux.com GnuPG: pub 1024D/F0D7313C sub 2048g/6AA2EDDB ar@rhwd.net 7D44 F4E3 1993 FDDF 552E 7C88 EE9C CBD1 F0D7 313C Securing Debian: http://joker.rhwd.de/doc/Securing-Debian-HOWTO