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Enumerating Linux operating system with enum4linux tool

Enum4linux is used to enumerate Linux machines. This tool works only in a LAN environment. It is used to extract a number of user accounts, user names, length of the password and last time when password changed. Let us consider Metasploitable OS (Linux) as a target and perform enumeration.
Lets say you have a target ip. Then execute the following command in kali linux.



This command is used to grab users list of targeted machine




We can use -S option to extract file sharing details from the target system



-P option of enum4linux helps in identifying target system’s password length(Password policy information).


After executing the following commands you will be enumerate linux OS using enum4linux.
happy enumeration.

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