a newbie question

Hi guys,

I have just registered my self to play this game :)) a nice one. Anyway my question may sound a bit stupid. Shall I wait my account to be somehow activated so I can connect to the servers (erebus, erinys) or I should start figure out how to get access to them from sirens.roothack.org? Its kind of confusing.

Thanks for the replay :)

Wargames - Thu, 03/18/2010 - 02:10 - savek - 3552 reads

You can connect to the

You can connect to the servers right away.

http://roothack.org/games/sirens/info

Read that page. It gives you all the information you need.

If you're still having trouble, let me know.

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Fri, 03/19/2010 - 18:17 - ocyrus

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I access the gateway but I cant loggin to these servers. Is it a problem of my ID or I need to get sum access at the gateway first?

Sun, 03/21/2010 - 23:39 - savek

Thats part of the game, What

Thats part of the game,

What happens/ what do you see when you type, "ssh erinys"

Mon, 03/22/2010 - 07:19 - ocyrus

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its asking me for password. I suppose thats the way it should be and I have to find the password on my own ?

Mon, 03/22/2010 - 23:06 - savek

yeah, what do you see when

yeah, what do you see when its asking you for a password?

Tue, 03/23/2010 - 08:05 - ocyrus

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this
wargames@sirens:~$ ssh erinys
SSH - [RH] level1 /wh00t [RH]
wargames@erinys's password:
...............................
I have tried alot of combinations from what I see on that line but non of them worked ...so I suppose the password is not somewhere at that line , right?

Tue, 03/23/2010 - 23:38 - savek

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Okay Im in... thanks a lot for the help :))

Tue, 03/23/2010 - 23:42 - savek

im already at level4 :D for

im already at level4 :D for no time, super good and fun game, thank you guys ! :D

Wed, 03/24/2010 - 00:05 - savek

help

can someone point me in the right direction please ive been researchin for a while and i unfortunately still do not understand what needs to be done. a hint would be greatly appreciated, thank you

Sun, 04/18/2010 - 19:43 - dougie fresh

im stuck there as well. help

im stuck there as well. help would be appreciated

Mon, 05/17/2010 - 08:22 - pknake

What kind of help do you

What kind of help do you need? The sirens are up, i tested the login information, everything appears to be working.

Mon, 05/17/2010 - 14:21 - ocyrus

there just doesn't appear to

there just doesn't appear to be a logical way to figure out the password for ssh erinys. perhaps there is something im overlooking..

Tue, 05/18/2010 - 02:34 - pknake

U dont need to figure out the

U dont need to figure out the password. Its shown to you :)

Sat, 05/22/2010 - 13:10 - ocyrus

bahumbug. Ive typed in

bahumbug. Ive typed in everything that popped up, but no dice.

Fri, 06/25/2010 - 14:54 - pknake

perhaps you should do some

perhaps you should do some research on how ssh works

Sat, 06/26/2010 - 15:38 - JBu92

i have no idea how to figure

i have no idea how to figure out the password to erinys

Tue, 10/19/2010 - 16:16 - twist3d

@echo

twist3d, its right in front

twist3d, its right in front of you if you connect to erinys.

Tue, 10/19/2010 - 19:15 - ocyrus

i don't know something just

i don't know something just doesn't click.....

Wed, 10/20/2010 - 14:07 - twist3d

@echo

What are you trying to

What are you trying to do?

Are you typing ssh erinys?

Are you on the gateway? Can you paste some commands you are trying?

Mon, 10/25/2010 - 11:28 - ocyrus

I hate these levels ...

I logged on a while ago and it didn't take long to see I could run ssh and ssh to erinys.

I obviously get this back:

SSH - [RH] level1 / wh00t [RH]

wargames@erinys's password:

I couldn't think of a way to get a trusted key to put in .ssh or use the available gateway tools to see if I could exploit the ssh server. I resorted to the forums and it seems like a password guessing game.

There's nothing I hate more when doing challenges than coming across password guessing. I tried upper/lower case number substitution e.t.c. of various parts of the banner and login credentials and username. I don't particularly want to write a bash script for one but apparently I don't need to, just need to guess the right password from "what's in front of me" (award for least helpful hint ever).

I do these challenges to learn and advance skills. There is absolutely nothing worth learning or advancing from sitting typing in lots of password guesses, it's a waste of the short time I have to do these challenges. Can someone just pm me the password so I can do something interesting? Alternatively is it OK with roothack if I upload a bash script to brute force the password for me? If so, what connection limiting shall I use?

Sun, 10/31/2010 - 14:16 - monkey

Monkey, its right in front of

Monkey, its right in front of you. You PASTED password in your post.

SSH - [RH] level1 / wh00t [RH]

If you look at what your typing, it seems like its ssh wargames@erinys. Have you tried ssh level1@erinys? Probably not. If you did, what passwords did you try?

Wed, 11/03/2010 - 09:54 - ocyrus

most common problem with level1

Yeah, the most common problem I see/hear with level1 is not knowing what user/pass combo to use, people generally eventually figure out one or the other, but sometimes it takes them a while to realize the user/pass are both right in front of them

Thu, 11/04/2010 - 13:59 - aksnowman

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