Category: Protocols, Finger
Title: Simple Finger Deamon Tutorial by Paris2K
Description: Giving the Finger to port 79 / Simple Finger Deamon Tutorial by Paris2K. The Finger Deamon is a service that normally runs on port 79 and was originally intended as a sort of a digital businesscard for people. A remote user can send a request to a Finger Deamon running on a system (standard finger port is 79) and will get a reply. This reply will tell you what users are on a system and it will also give you some contact information of these users. Besides just userinfo, often the reply also tells you who the admin of the system is and how he can be reached.
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