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Old 01-25-2002, 06:03 PM   #1
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Anyone know a good and safe identd server? I want to change my identd but each three servers I found was vulnerable to buffer overflow so....
 
Old 01-26-2002, 11:27 PM   #2
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come on,no one heard about identh?
 
Old 01-27-2002, 11:48 PM   #3
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Anything wrong with the default one that came with slack?
 
Old 01-28-2002, 02:24 AM   #4
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I use oidentd from http://ojnk.sourceforge.net
Never saw any security reports on buffer overflows. Although I guess I never looked for any besides reading the comments on their site.
 
Old 01-28-2002, 04:41 AM   #5
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Davids:the ones coming with slack only give me my "account name" as my identh (or maybe I run it the wrong way?) and I don't know how to change it (if it is possible) and well I hate showing my real name/account all around the web so...
 
  


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