More fun with finger...
Sometimes a system will have no restrictions on how lame a
password can be. Common lame password habits are to use no password
at all, the same password as user name, the user’s first
or last name, and “guest.” If these don’t work
for the cracker, there are widely circulated programs which try
out every word of the dictionary and every name in the typical
phone book.
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Newbie Note #2: Is your password easy to crack? If you have a
shell account, you may change it with the command:
passwd
Choose a password that isn’t in the dictionary or phone
book, is at least 6 characters long, and includes some characters
that are not letters of the alphabet.
A password that is found in the dictionary but has one extra
character is *not* a good password.
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Other commands which may sometimes get a response out of finger
include:
finger @
finger 0
finger root
finger bin
finger ftp
finger system
finger guest
finger demo
finger manager
Or, even just hitting <enter> once you are into port
79 may give you something interesting.
There are plenty of other commands that may or may not work.
But most commands on most finger programs will give you nothing,
because most system administrators don’t want to ladle out
lots of information to the casual visitor. In fact, a really
cautious sysadmin will disable finger entirely. So you’ll
never even manage to get into port 79 of some computers.
More fun with finger--->>
