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Re: SunOS 4.1.4 fingerd

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (invalid opcode)
Thu May 16 17:58:47 1996

Date:         Thu, 16 May 1996 14:14:02 -0700
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From: invalid opcode <coredump@nervosa.com>
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On Thu, 16 May 1996, Andy Dills wrote:

> I know I have seen it written up someplace about the flaw when
> finger 0@XXX.com is done. (It shows a finger output on every user, which
> as we know, can be a very useful tool to those with bad intentions)

> Andy

One can also telnet to the machine's finger port and type "-l" enter and
it should do the same thing depending on the OS.

== Chris Layne ======================================== Nervosa Computing ==
== coredump@nervosa.com ================ http://www.nervosa.com/~coredump ==

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