[wplug] Govt. authority over crack attempts?

[John Harrold]

Sometime in September Alexandros Papadopoulos assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| 21/tcp    open     ftp
| 22/tcp    open     ssh
| 25/tcp    open     smtp
| 79/tcp    open     finger
| 80/tcp    open     http
| 111/tcp   open     rpcbind

these things got me thinking and i started googling away and i found out
that you can run fuser on a port :). 

i.e.

# fuser 79/tcp 

will return the fingerd process id. 

you guys probably already know that, but i thought i would let the other
know. oh yeah and russ, you probably don't need finger running on your
computer.



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