tlug: What is identd?

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

I've been pruning inetd.conf (the only things left are sshd, pop-3 and
auth), but I don't know if I can remove the "auth....in.identd" line. What
does it do?

Darren

P.S. A web search found a secure perl alternative for identd, as apparently
there are some security holes:
  http://www2.merton.ox.ac.uk/~security/bugtraq-199809/0107.html


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