Finger (79)
Finger displays information about users on a specified remote computer (typically a computer running UNIX) that is running the finger service or daemon. The remote computer specifies the format and output of the user information display.
Let check if there is any user logged on.
└─$ finger @10.10.10.10
No one logged on
On finger service could allow us to enumerate user.
└─$ finger root@10.10.10.10
Login Name TTY Idle When Where
root Super-User pts/3 <Apr 24, 2018> sunday
└─$ finger any@10.10.10.10
Login Name TTY Idle When Where
any ???
We can download the tool finger-enum from pentest monkey.
./finger-user-enum.pl -U /usr/share/seclists/Usernames/Names/names.txt -t 10.10.10.10
└─$ ./finger-user-enum.pl -U /usr/share/seclists/Usernames/Names/names.txt -t 10.10.10.10 1 ⨯
Starting finger-user-enum v1.0 ( http://pentestmonkey.net/tools/finger-user-enum )
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| Scan Information |
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Worker Processes ......... 5
Usernames file ........... /usr/share/seclists/Usernames/Names/names.txt
Target count ............. 1
Username count ........... 10177
Target TCP port .......... 79
Query timeout ............ 5 secs
Relay Server ............. Not used
######## Scan started at Thu Nov 11 06:17:00 2021 #########
sammy@10.10.10.10: sammy console <Jul 31, 2020>..
sunny@10.10.10.10: sunny pts/2 11 Thu 17:04 10.10.14.31 .
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