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Posted by whatbackup 2 hours ago

Harvesting SSH Credentials: Insights from My Honeypot Network(uphillsecurity.com)
22 points | 13 comments
0cf8612b2e1e 1 hour ago|
Do most installations create a git user account with login permissions?
inigyou 50 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 that after logging into the git account, you can only run the git server (I forget the command). 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.

tuetuopay 3 minutes ago|||
SSH bastions would like a word I guess. You can authenticate, but you definitely can’t login (which is also the case for git over SSH).
0cf8612b2e1e 6 minutes ago|||
I suppose /usr/sbin/nologin is not a thing?

https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/nologin.8.html

daneel_w 1 hour ago||
No "credentials" are being "harvested" here. It's all worthless data, save for the statistics.
asveikau 1 hour ago|
Having a root password of "toor" is very clever. Nobody will figure that one out.
erulastiel 1 hour ago||
toor was a default password for many devices for decades.
asveikau 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 57 minutes ago||
It was the default password for the root user in Kali Linux for a while.
pudgywalsh 49 minutes ago|||
Slackware used it in the late 90s IIRC.
sisve 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 1 hour ago||
Or even better, 21. Reverse it to add another layer of obfuscation.
whatbackup 56 minutes ago||
You are right.

12 - Rank 318

21 - Rank 523

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