Lab Environment

Lab Environment


In the InetSec Lab, we run Linux (Debian) on a student server that is "safely" decoupled from the Internet so that you can play around and solve your challenges. This server is remotely accessible for you through 128.111.48.231 via ssh. However, note that the server is NOT running on the default ssh port. It is running on port 10001. If you want to ssh per hand under Linux, you have to do ssh 128.111.48.231 -p 10001. If you are using a Windows ssh client such as Putty, then you have to enter 128.111.48.231 as host name and 10001 as port number. The local name of the server is bandit.inetsec.edu.

You can put the following entries either into your /etc/ssh/ssh_config or ~/.ssh/config file so that you don't have to enter the port each time you connect (Windows users can save a session with Putty):

  Host bandit
     Hostname 128.111.48.231
     Port 10001
     HostKeyAlias bandit
    

Changing your password


It is good practice to change your password once you get your account. We might try to crack your password, so do change it.

Reading your e-mail on the server


You will submit your challenge solutions using e-mail on the lab machine. Submission from any other server (e.g., CSIL) will not work. You will also receive automated feedback from our submission system (e.g., information about your submission, grading, success/failure, etc.) to your lab account. In order for you to be able to read your mails, we have installed pine and mutt on the InetSec server. Feel free to use anything you prefer (e.g., the UNIX mail command for the experts should also do it :-)). If you prefer to read your mails on some other server, then you can create a .forward file in your home directory. We have enabled forwarding on the servers.