Re: [bug-anubis] [INFO] User identification problems with Anubis v 4.0

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Daniel S. Haischt <address@hidden> wrote:

> In auth mode Anubis does not refuse to read the
> ~/.anubisrc file. It just does in transparent mode.

Ah-ha, I see now. So, there are no problems in auth mode, are there?

Let's summarise what's going on in transparent mode:

1) You connect to the host running Anubis from another machine. In this
case Anubis requires that the username be translated in TRANSLATION
section.

2) Anubis queries identd server, gets username `haischt' from there,
but it fails to translate it. Now, since the connect comes from the
remote host (as opposed to localhost), Anubis refuses to use the received
user name and switches to the unprivileged user 'nobody'.

3) Since 'nobody' does not have `.anubisrc' file (it should not have
one, anyway), Anubis does not read any.

Regards,
Sergey