[TriLUG] RH /etc/xinetd.d/pop3s

[Turnpike Man]

--- Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> Note that the "USERID" thing refers to the RFC 1413 "ident" protocol. 
> The idea behind this protocol is that xinetd will query the connecting
> computer to get the Unix userid who's logged on.  However, the whole
> thing is considered insecure, and there's often no ident server running
> (or it's blocked by a firewall, etc), which causes a huge slowdown in
> connections.  So you probably don't want the USERID stuff at all -- and
> notice that Red Hat has taken it out of the default configuration for
> RHL 7.3 and greater.  
> 
>
http://www.landfield.com/wu-ftpd/mail-archive/wuftpd-questions/2001/Aug/0091.html
> 
> By the way, the man page you should read for all the options is "man
> xinetd.conf"

I was not manning the right thing... no wonder I didn't find those options Jon.
 And Jeremy, I did notice that RH 7.3 didn't have it, and RH 9 didn't either. 
Now I know why!  Thanks!

David M.

Ellison's Law: "The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and
stupidity."


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