Re: Port 113 security

On Wednesday 12 March 2003 3:27 pm, Björn Eriksson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:17:53PM -0500, Peter H. Lemieux wrote:

You might be interested in OpenBSD's identd -- the -h option in particular.

[man identd]

     -h      Hide the actual information about the user by providing an opaque
             token instead.  This token is entered into the local system logs
             so that the administrator can later discover who the real user
             was.

This does permit some information to leak out, but it opaque. Here is a log entry.

Mar 12 01:31:35 tokyo identd[8970]: request for (45724,25) from localhost.ips.edu Mar 12 01:31:35 tokyo identd[8970]: token txjyl7b0xtvamk8fpsdx == uid 25 (smmsp)

It might be possible to port this to Linux, but I haven't checked.

Curt Received on Mon Mar 17 13:45:11 2003

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