[Gllug] identd -- any point?

[Tethys]

David Damerell writes:

>That's not it. You should run identd on your system because you want
>to be a well-run system; in order that, if one of _your_ users does
>something bad, there's a chance the victim can help you identify the
>culprit. This is why you should run an encrypting identd, whose
>responses are not meaningful to the remote system, but when returned
>to you can be used to identify the user at your end who is
>responsible.

That I agree with.

>Requiring systems making connections to run identd is not a matter of
>expecting that information to be valid; it's a simple reflection of
>the fact that if the systems that _are_ well run all used identd the
>world would be a better places, and it encourages them to do so.

This I don't. If a site has identd running, then by all means use it.
But refusing to work unless without it is just brain dead. No amount
of blackmail like this is going to encourage anything other than faked
replies anyway.

Tet

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