Re: Bogus ident check?

[Christophe Kalt <kalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 14, forcer wrote:
| *** Maxtifyer (~                        @wbppp64.web-access.net) has joined
| 	channel #Starwars
| 
| I checked, he had 113/tcp open, but it closed after accepting the connection.
| (there was an ident line in inetd.conf but he forgot to install identd)
| He used username "max" so, and according to how i understand RFC1459 there
| should be no way to announce a spaces-only username, right?
| Is this a bug or a feature?

client bug probably, ~ prefix means ident lookup failed,
therefore the username used was the one given by the client.
My guess is that there were some funny characters in there.