Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 10:14:28 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any easy way to tell the OS of an FTP site? Message-ID: <199603170914.KAA10520@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960317000548.20994A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> from "hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca" at Mar 17, 96 00:07:28 am
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As hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca wrote: > Telnet to them! For example, telnet://ftp.cdrom.com will produce > something like > > FreeBSD wcarchive.cdrom.com > > Login: > > Actually, the alt.2600 faq has a whole section on identifying > which OS xxx site is running based on what type of login prompt it gives > you.A While you are stuck with the builtin banner message on a SysV (what a security-wise stupid idea!), you can easily modify it for BSD, so it's impossible to get the type of machine directly. For example, my own machine says: j@uriah 306% telnet 0 Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0. Escape character is '^]'. Welcome at uriah.heep.sax.de! Please login with "msg" if you wanna leave a message to the owner. login: -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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