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Snooping For Usernames And Passwords Over SSH Using Strace On Linux

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 28, 2009

[ Thanks to An Anonymous
Reader
for this link. ]

“You can run this shell script (which I’ll admit is a
little sketchy – written under duress 😉 fairly simply, like so:

host # ./ssh-snoop

“The picture below shows the minimal interactivity at startup
(just to confirm that you get the base SSH process – since the
strace call will run down all the forked processes from the root).
In the case shown below the username is “user123” and the password
is “easyPass” You’ll have to sift through a few lines of garbage,
but it’s better then combing the full strace output:”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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