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there is an "ubuntu" user on most of my systems. I hope you find this information useful.

• Someone1234 8y ago
  I know you're being facetious but, yes, I would find that information useful. Now I've just IDed the distribution I'm targeting.
  • thaumaturgy 8y ago
    A disappointing number of servers happily give away this information in their http response headers. For those that don't, `nmap -O` will sometimes do the trick.
    • Someone1234 8y ago
      nmap's OS detection won't normally tell you the distribution, only the OS (and maybe kernel version).
  • blattimwind 8y ago
    This is usually in the OpenSSH version string anyway, e.g. "OpenSSH 6.7p1 Debian 5+deb8u4 (protocol 2.0)". Guess what distro that server is running?
    • eahman00 8y ago
      I believe only Debian does that, out of vanity (I presume).
      • jwilk 8y ago
        https://salsa.debian.org/ssh-team/openssh/raw/master/debian/patches/package-versioning.patch https://salsa.debian.org/ssh-team/openssh/raw/master/debian/... Subject: Include the Debian version in our identification This makes it easier to audit networks for versions patched against security vulnerabilities. It has little detrimental effect, as attackers will generally just try attacks rather than bothering to scan for vulnerable-looking version strings. (However, see debian-banner.patch.)