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| Subject: | Re: Checking credentials~ |
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| Date: | Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:56:21 -1000 |
Thanks~I ran that command and there is a 'readhat-release' in /etc. Is this distro you don't support?? Kevin> > Message: 2> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:12:34 -0400> From: 'George A. Theall' <theall@tenablesecurity.com>> Subject: Re: Checking credentials~> To: nessus@list.nessus.org> Message-ID: <13E791C7-507B-4122-9CB7-55218C05D004@tenablesecurity.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes> > On Apr 17, 2008, at 3:26 AM, Kevin Chak wrote:> > > Sorry, how do I know what kind of Linux system I'm logging in?> > There is probably a file in /etc describing the distro; it will be > named something like 'redhat-release', 'debian_version', etc. So one
approach is to> ssh into the host and run 'ls -al /etc/*{version,release}
2>/dev/ > null'. It's possible it's either a distro we don't support or someone
removed the file so we can't determine what it is.> > George> -- >
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