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Re: SunOS 4.1.4 fingerd

From: chris () westnet com (Christopher X. Candreva)
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 17:28:45 -0400

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


On my SunOS 4.1.3 system, finger 0  lists all system accounts (uid 0), and
all users with a trailing space in the gecos field.

Go fig.

-Chris


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    - SunOS 4.1.4 fingerd Andy Dills (May 16)
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