Re: tlug: What is identd?

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

>> auth), but I don't know if I can remove the "auth....in.identd" line. What
>> does it do?
>
>identd handles incoming requests to learn the user of a TCP connection. The
>most common use is to log who is running the process that just established a
>connection to your server (SMTP most commonly I suppose, but also IRC, FTP,

So, am I correct in thinking I can remove it if I want, and all software
will still run okay? It's reason for existence is logging, error tracking,
diagnosis, etc.

Web searches found some messages saying to remove it (thanks to Sean, BTW),
but OTOH, the firewall how-to had left it in their inetd.conf example file.

Darren



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