Some error messages in syslog.log

[Patrick Chim]

Hi,

I found the following message appear in the syslog.log

Apr 17 07:01:01 hostname inetd[797]: ident/tcp: Died on signal 13

Does anyone know the meaning of it ? I did not see this before and we just do our changing in hostname and the MC/SG implementation only on Apr 16 night.

Regards,
Patrick

[Steve Steel · Accepted solution]

Hi

Patches


PHNE_26305 11.11


Should fix

Otherwise disable identd

Steve Steel

[Patrick Chim]

Hi,

What does identd use for ?? Is there any harm to my system ?

Regards,
Patrick

[Vicente Sanchez_3]

Hi,

inetd is the daemon responsible of internet services, such as ftp, telnet, etc.

If this daemon is not running, nobody could connect to the machine via telnet and so.

More information: man inetd.

Regards, Vicente.

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

TCP Client Identity Protocol (ident). When a client on host A initiates a TCP connection to host B, host B may query a server on host A to determine the identity of the client on host A. The primary purpose of this protocol is to record the identity of requesters initiating a connection.

check out the following document:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1413.txt

regards,
Sergejs

[Vicente Sanchez_3]

Hi again,

I'm sorry about my mistake. I understood inetd, not ident.

Regards, Vicente.

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

The Identification Protocol (a.k.a., "ident", a.k.a., "the Ident Protocol") provides a means to determine the identity of a user of a particular TCP connection. Given a TCP port number pair, it returns a character string which identifies the owner of that connection on the server's system.

The Identification Protocol was formerly called the Authentication Server Protocol. It has been renamed to better reflect its function.

See RFC 1413
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1413.html

RFC 1413 states, "If you wouldn't run a 'finger' server due to privacy considerations you may not want to run this protocol". I agree with this but suggest that it might not apply to a cryptographic identd (e.g. -C).

Hope this helps!

Best Regards
Yogeeraj