[2553] in bugtraq
Re: SunOS 4.1.4 fingerd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yiorgos Adamopoulos)
Fri May 17 13:29:58 1996
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 20:04:55 +0300
Reply-To: y.adamopoulos@noc.ntua.gr
From: Yiorgos Adamopoulos <Y.Adamopoulos@noc.ntua.gr>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <199605171608.MAA24536@chunky.sewp.nasa.gov> from "Steve Coleman
- SEWP" at May 17, 96 12:08:01 pm
> was not found to scan the gecos field for any partial information it could
> match on. Is it possible that the '.' and '@' are just forms of a regular
> expression or wildcard matching? If so then how many other wildcards are
> there to grep the password file?
`.' is regexp. The characters that I know that are either regexps or
wildcards are: `.', `+', `*', `[', `]', `-', `?', `{', `}', `|', `^',
`(', `)'. egrep(1), sh(1), and perl(1) describe them.
I don't know if `@' is in the above set.
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Yiorgos Adamopoulos adamo@noc.ntua.gr
National Technical University of Athens, NOC
