Harvesting SSH Credentials: Insights from My Honeypot Network

0cf8612b2e1e•about 1 hour ago

Do most installations create a git user account with login permissions?

inigyou•22 minutes ago

There's no such thing as an account with or without login permissions. Normally you need a git account. And that means you can log in to it. And then you have to try and configure your ssh server so you can only run the git server (I forget the command) once you've logged into it. You can use ForceCommand to make it so you can only run the git server, but if a mistake is made with this configuration then you can log in or port forward or X forward or file transfer as git.

This is a terrible idea because it's blacklist-based security. Places like GitHub have their own ssh server that only runs the git server and nothing else.

asveikau•about 1 hour ago

Having a root password of "toor" is very clever. Nobody will figure that one out.

sisve•about 1 hour ago

Did you check out the statistics on the site? They listed 1233456, 12345, 1234,123 and 1 on the toplist of password.

If we are going to be clever we should follow the statistics and go for 12 that where not on the toplist!!

youareinsuffera•41 minutes ago

Or even better, 21. Reverse it to add another layer of obfuscation.

whatbackup•28 minutes ago

You are right.

12 - Rank 318

21 - Rank 523

I'm surprised that '12' is so low on the list.

erulastiel•about 1 hour ago

toor was a default password for many devices for decades.

asveikau•about 1 hour ago

I've used unix-like OS's for 28 years and I don't remember coming across it as a password.

It is a common username (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toor_(Unix) ), the machine I am typing this on has it.

PyWoody•29 minutes ago

It was the default password for the root user in Kali Linux for a while.

pudgywalsh•21 minutes ago

Slackware used it in the late 90s IIRC.

daneel_w•about 1 hour ago

No "credentials" are being "harvested" here. It's all worthless data, save for the statistics.

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