uname output ?

[Derek D. Martin]

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At some point hitherto, Mark Komarinski hath spake thusly:
> > Which most security-concious admins still remove or zero as a matter
> > of course.  Why tell the net-at-large what holes to look for?
> 
> Uhm...how can you tell the contents of /etc/issue from the net?

Telnet to the machine would be one way (assuming you can).  But you
seem to be assuming that your attacker will not be on your network.
70% or more of reported computer crime is done from the inside,
according to the FBI.  I concur with Ben and Mike.  Said so in a post
that I managed to munge my from: address...  

Note that at least on newer Linux systems, there's also an
/etc/issue.net, which is what you see if you telnet to a machine.
Some older Unix systems, IIRC, use /etc/issue for both purposes.

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