On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 03:14:57PM +0100, Paul Mansfield wrote:
Ok, I almost like this.
The only problem I can see is when the dynamic dialup user is still a linux box... but in that case, the administative control _still_ vests
could the ident be intercepted, so that the ident result from the dialler was retagged? tricky...
in just the same way that adding SMTP or NNTP headers allows additional tracking but doesn't prevent the originator of news or mail from supplying their own.
Yeah, you could do a full proxy-ident: retrieve the userid from the end-user, and then resend it yourself. But all you'd be tagging it as is: _I_ didn't generate this... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com