Re: HIDDEN-USER

Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se> Thu, 13 August 1992 22:36 UTC

Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 00:35:56 -0000
From: Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se>
To: ident@NRI.Reston.VA.US
Subject: Re: HIDDEN-USER
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 13 Aug 92 18:11:43 EDT
Message-Id: <CMM.0.90.0.713745356.pen@robin.lysator.liu.se>

Alexander Dupuy writes:

> Is there anyone out there who still feels strongly that complete anonymity is
> ever necessary?  If not, I propose that HIDDEN-USER be dropped from the
> draft.

Yes, there is. I do feel that complete anonymity may be necessary.

The problem with removing "HIDDEN-USER" from the draft is that then if
some sysadmin gets a request to implement a way for someone to become
completely anonymous, he will have two choices, stop running an IDENT
server or hack the Ident server to return NO-USER or UNKNOWN-ERROR or
some other error. That will make it completely impossible to distinguish
between users requesting anonymosity and other errors.

I think it is much better to have HIDDEN-USER in the draft, but not enabled
by default in the servers.

/Peter

Peter Eriksson                                              pen@lysator.liu.se
Lysator Academic Computer Society                 ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
University of Linkoping, Sweden                           I'm bored. Flame me.

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