Harvesting SSH Credentials: Insights from My Honeypot Network

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

	▲	inigyou 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		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.

daneel_w an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

asveikau 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

toor was a default password for many devices for decades.

asveikau an hour ago | parent | next [-]

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 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It was the default password for the root user in Kali Linux for a while.

Slackware used it in the late 90s IIRC.

sisve an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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!!

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

	▲	whatbackup an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You are right. 12 - Rank 318 21 - Rank 523 I'm surprised that '12' is so low on the list.