Bugtraq: Re: SunOS 4.1.4 fingerd

[Y.Adamopoulos () noc ntua gr (Yiorgos Adamopoulos)]

> 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