Re: SunOS 4.1.4 fingerd
Yiorgos Adamopoulos (Y.Adamopoulos@noc.ntua.gr)
Fri, 17 May 1996 20:04:55 +0300
> 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