#site-support | TryHackMe | Page 147

eager fulcrum Mar 17, 2020, 1:22 PM

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How are you trying to connect?

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What task?

shut acorn Mar 17, 2020, 1:23 PM

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I am trying to connect to the 25 days of christmas task and it simply says "http://*machine ip here":3000

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I could only assume that the machine ip is the ip I am provided at the tryhackme.com/access
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eager fulcrum Mar 17, 2020, 1:24 PM

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There's lots of tasks in that room

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So you're doing the first day?

shut acorn Mar 17, 2020, 1:24 PM

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Yeah

leaden token Mar 17, 2020, 1:24 PM

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IP you need is displayed in a small red card

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when you hit deploy button

shut acorn Mar 17, 2020, 1:25 PM

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Oh my I just realised that

eager fulcrum Mar 17, 2020, 1:25 PM

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Also bear in mind that it takes a lil while for machines to deploy

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Especially the backend for these, they take a while to get going

leaden token Mar 17, 2020, 1:25 PM

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Agree ^

shut acorn Mar 17, 2020, 1:25 PM

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So if it just goes like that give him a bit too easy

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Also, when connecting to OpenVPN using terminal after it says intialization sequence complete just leave terminal open correct?

eager fulcrum Mar 17, 2020, 1:26 PM

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Yea

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I leave it in a seperate terminal tab

shut acorn Mar 17, 2020, 1:26 PM

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too easy

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thanks for the help I will let you know if I get stuck again haha atleast I am learning

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

eager fulcrum Mar 17, 2020, 1:27 PM

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"too easy"?

shut acorn Mar 17, 2020, 1:28 PM

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Just what us aussies sometimes say when we get given instructions haha

leaden token Mar 17, 2020, 1:29 PM

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Cheers mate

shut acorn Mar 17, 2020, 1:30 PM

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mhm so after waiting about 5 minutes it still does not seem to let me connect?

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oh dw

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just taking forever to load thanks for the help 🙂

leaden token Mar 17, 2020, 1:32 PM

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try harder

zenith falcon Mar 17, 2020, 2:46 PM

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Hey in there

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i huv a small question ?

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when i click on a room and it redirect me to the "why subscribe" page it means that the room isn't free ?

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just wondering ?

barren birch Mar 17, 2020, 2:49 PM

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Yes

zenith falcon Mar 17, 2020, 2:51 PM

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okay thanks

blazing aspen Mar 17, 2020, 2:52 PM

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Hi guys, I realized that this machine is unreachable (https://tryhackme.com/room/ctf)

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I can't get a connection

barren birch Mar 17, 2020, 2:53 PM

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You're connected to the VPN, have deployed the machine, etc?

blazing aspen Mar 17, 2020, 2:53 PM

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Yes

barren birch Mar 17, 2020, 2:53 PM

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Try this

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!multivpn

sharp bisonBOT Mar 17, 2020, 2:53 PM

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TryHackMe

• Step 1

Type ps aux | grep openvpn into your terminal and press enter

• Step 2

If there's more than one line (and the second doesn't have "grep" in it), do the following steps

• Step 3

Type killall openvpn into your terminal and press enter

• Step 4

Start the VPN with sudo openvpn <path-to-config>

blazing aspen Mar 17, 2020, 2:53 PM

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I tried to deploy another machine

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And I could access the other machine

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(sorry about my poor english)

barren birch Mar 17, 2020, 2:54 PM

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I'll check the machine now, but it should be working

blazing aspen Mar 17, 2020, 2:54 PM

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Okay! Thanks

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I had the same problems a few days ago

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Idk why

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Thanks 🙂

barren birch Mar 17, 2020, 2:55 PM

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Do us a favour, type ps aux | grep openvpn into your terminal and screenshot the result?

blazing aspen Mar 17, 2020, 2:55 PM

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barren birch Mar 17, 2020, 2:56 PM

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It looks like you've got more than one connection open

blazing aspen Mar 17, 2020, 2:56 PM

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barren birch Mar 17, 2020, 2:56 PM

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Which usually breaks the whole lot

deep trellis Mar 17, 2020, 2:56 PM

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you have 2 processes running?

blazing aspen Mar 17, 2020, 2:56 PM

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I terminate the other

barren birch Mar 17, 2020, 2:56 PM

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But can make it act really weird

blazing aspen Mar 17, 2020, 2:56 PM

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connection

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The one who had problems

deep trellis Mar 17, 2020, 2:56 PM

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You have 2 OpenVPN connections

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From that image you sent

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You need to terminate one

blazing aspen Mar 17, 2020, 2:57 PM

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When I boot my machine I always connect to the vpn

barren birch Mar 17, 2020, 2:57 PM

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!multivpn

sharp bisonBOT Mar 17, 2020, 2:57 PM

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TryHackMe

• Step 1

Type ps aux | grep openvpn into your terminal and press enter

• Step 2

If there's more than one line (and the second doesn't have "grep" in it), do the following steps

• Step 3

Type killall openvpn into your terminal and press enter

• Step 4

Start the VPN with sudo openvpn <path-to-config>

blazing aspen Mar 17, 2020, 2:57 PM

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Only 1 time

barren birch Mar 17, 2020, 2:57 PM

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I love that command so much

blazing aspen Mar 17, 2020, 2:58 PM

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Done

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Why do I have 2 processes? I only connect to the VPN once

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😦

barren birch Mar 17, 2020, 2:59 PM

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It can be a bit funny sometimes

blazing aspen Mar 17, 2020, 2:59 PM

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:/

barren birch Mar 17, 2020, 2:59 PM

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However. In this case (despite there being two open), it actually is something with the machine

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It's operating as intended

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But it's not pingable

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Try doing nmap -Pn <machine-ip>

blazing aspen Mar 17, 2020, 3:00 PM

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OKay

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Yay

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Sorry bout this!

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Thanks you all @deep trellis @barren birch

barren birch Mar 17, 2020, 3:00 PM

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No problem. That's what we're here for 😄

blazing aspen Mar 17, 2020, 3:01 PM

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🙂

copper mist Mar 17, 2020, 7:23 PM

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Is the bot dead?

barren birch Mar 17, 2020, 7:23 PM

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Better not be. There's a giveaway on

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I'll check #discord-bot

stone roost Mar 17, 2020, 7:24 PM

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What giveaway? @barren birch

barren birch Mar 17, 2020, 7:25 PM

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Month's subscription to commemorate 25K users

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but, uh, the bot looks dead

stone roost Mar 17, 2020, 7:25 PM

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Where's that lool

barren birch Mar 17, 2020, 7:25 PM

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Announcements

rigid oxide Mar 17, 2020, 7:25 PM

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rip the bot

barren birch Mar 17, 2020, 7:26 PM

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Well, it's alive

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Just blanking us

naive dust Mar 17, 2020, 7:26 PM

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This was part of @barren birch's plan

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Now he can be the thm bot

barren birch Mar 17, 2020, 7:26 PM

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Haha!

naive dust Mar 17, 2020, 8:54 PM

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is the site down?

leaden token Mar 17, 2020, 8:54 PM

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yes

naive dust Mar 17, 2020, 8:54 PM

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ok

leaden token Mar 17, 2020, 8:54 PM

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under maintenance

naive dust Mar 17, 2020, 8:54 PM

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Mhm

eager fulcrum Mar 17, 2020, 8:54 PM

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Should be back soon but not yet

naive dust Mar 17, 2020, 8:55 PM

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A nice "maintenance page" would be nice, next time, just a constructive feedback

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Should be back soon but not yet
@eager fulcrum No problem, Thanks for the heads up

eager fulcrum Mar 17, 2020, 8:56 PM

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I mean it was meant to be 25mins ago

zealous yoke Mar 17, 2020, 8:56 PM

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There was one earlier - however due to the maintenance they're doing its essentially not possible to have a maintenance page lmao

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Patience and Skidy will pull through

naive dust Mar 17, 2020, 8:56 PM

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They already pulled through

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Now we just gotta wait for dns

zealous yoke Mar 17, 2020, 8:57 PM

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it's always DNS

naive dust Mar 17, 2020, 8:57 PM

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There was one earlier - however due to the maintenance they're doing its essentially not possible to have a maintenance page lmao
@zealous yoke I do not fully agree with your statement though. It is possible to setup a maintenance page, most of the time, depending of what exactly the work is/was

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but I do not want to get too much into technical stuff

zealous yoke Mar 17, 2020, 8:58 PM

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Oh yeah - most of the time - but they're moving everything to load balancers so you've gotta take everything down at somepoint. Unless you point the domain to just an apache splash page saying "we're down brb" 😛

naive dust Mar 17, 2020, 8:58 PM

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for instance... a load balancer

latent fable Mar 17, 2020, 8:58 PM

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Eh, it's still better than <html>down for maintance</html> which I have done on several occations

naive dust Mar 17, 2020, 9:00 PM

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Back to Plan B, I guess.... watch Offsec new material and videos

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 12:16 AM

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If you need support, feel free to speak here! @narrow charm

warm needle Mar 18, 2020, 7:04 AM

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Just starting this so pretty new and its probably something ive screwed up but, im connected through open vpn and started a machine, but when i try to connect to the Ip it wont connect

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dull smelt Mar 18, 2020, 7:57 AM

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Hu

zealous yoke Mar 18, 2020, 8:56 AM

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Good morning!! Hey @warm needle, are you still having problems accessing the VM? Remember - just because you can't navigate to it via your browser on the default HTTP port 80, doesn't mean the box is broken. This is where you have to enumerate! Are you able to ping the IP Address?

surreal siren Mar 18, 2020, 1:35 PM

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Cant get any machine to work , tried with different rooms nothing cant even ping it (i was able to connect earlier)

root@kali:~/thm# ping  10.10.66.41 --boxes ip
PING 10.10.66.41 (10.10.66.41) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- 10.10.66.41 ping statistics ---
188 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 970ms

root@kali:~/thm# ping  10.10.66.41
PING 10.10.66.41 (10.10.66.41) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- 10.10.66.41 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

root@kali:~/thm# nmap -sC -sV -oN test.txt 10.10.66.41
Starting Nmap 7.70 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-03-18 09:28 EDT
Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try -Pn
Nmap done: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 3.66 seconds

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 1:36 PM

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Some things don't respond to pings

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Are you correctly VPN'd?

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!multivpn

sharp bisonBOT Mar 18, 2020, 1:36 PM

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TryHackMe

• Step 1

Type ps aux | grep openvpn into your terminal and press enter

• Step 2

If there's more than one line (and the second doesn't have "grep" in it), do the following steps

• Step 3

Type killall openvpn into your terminal and press enter

• Step 4

Start the VPN with sudo openvpn <path-to-config>

surreal siren Mar 18, 2020, 1:36 PM

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i believe so it does say im connected

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 1:36 PM

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Check that last bit especially

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Where?

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On Access?

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Don't trust access

surreal siren Mar 18, 2020, 1:36 PM

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lemme try that kill all 1 sec

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i think kill all worked

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 1:40 PM

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yeah so OpenVPN has issues if you connect with the same cert

surreal siren Mar 18, 2020, 1:40 PM

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yeah it did

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thanks m8 new w/ linux

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 1:41 PM

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It's the same on windows

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just harder to connect multiple times

surreal siren Mar 18, 2020, 1:41 PM

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alr thanks

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 1:41 PM

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But if you connect from 2 devices, you get similar issues

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 1:55 PM

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do we have issues again?

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 1:55 PM

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@naive dust Context?

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 1:55 PM

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can't connect via VPN

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not even Guacamole.... server kicked me out

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And ...

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so... either way, I can't ssh or connect to a lab machine

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 1:58 PM

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That's on your end

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I just connected

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Sounds like your VM lost network access

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 1:58 PM

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My end? I can connect to HTB, browse Google

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My Kali VM is fine

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 1:58 PM

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Network unreachable is your end

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Not our end

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 1:59 PM

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Your network is not reachable, I do not understand how that can be on my end

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 1:59 PM

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No, that's not what network unreachable means

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 1:59 PM

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ok, it seems I am not explaining myself properly

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or you confused what I said

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 1:59 PM

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No.

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 1:59 PM

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I can't connect to tryhackme via openvpn

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 2:00 PM

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I read the output from your VPN command

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:00 PM

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and Guacamole kicked me out

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 2:00 PM

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It says network unreachable. It's not our end

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Network unreachable is 99% a config problem

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:00 PM

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sigh... you are not being really helpful, let me restart my VM anyway

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I know what network unreachable means

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 2:00 PM

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I'm just saying it's not us

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:00 PM

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and I am saying it is

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 2:01 PM

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Prove it.

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:01 PM

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I sent you the errors

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 2:01 PM

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It works for me, I just redeployed and reconnected

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Yes.

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You did

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And it points to your end

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:01 PM

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and I am telling you everything works on my end except tryhackme

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how is that I can connect to PWK and HTB and not tryhackme?

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that sounds on your end not mine

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I do not have any custom route tables or something

rigid oxide Mar 18, 2020, 2:02 PM

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Do you have multiple vpn connections running? That sometimes can be the issue here

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 2:02 PM

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!multivpn

sharp bisonBOT Mar 18, 2020, 2:02 PM

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TryHackMe

• Step 1

Type ps aux | grep openvpn into your terminal and press enter

• Step 2

If there's more than one line (and the second doesn't have "grep" in it), do the following steps

• Step 3

Type killall openvpn into your terminal and press enter

• Step 4

Start the VPN with sudo openvpn <path-to-config>

rigid oxide Mar 18, 2020, 2:03 PM

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What James is pointing out is that given that we aren't having widespread reports that no one can connect to our vpn, it's highly unlikely to be on our end

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:03 PM

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Do you have multiple vpn connections running? That sometimes can be the issue here
@rigid oxide I do and I always connect that way. I have my software VPN always running on physical machine and never had any issue with HTB or PWK

rigid oxide Mar 18, 2020, 2:03 PM

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Strange

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:04 PM

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Let me turn my software VPN off

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 2:04 PM

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@rigid oxide Also network unreachable is a config issue, not an issue for us

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:04 PM

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I just restarted my VM

rigid oxide Mar 18, 2020, 2:04 PM

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Yeah @eager fulcrum I know

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Give it a try as well directly on the VM

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The vpn's for pwk, htb, and thm all work the same (with the exception of pwk using a login) so there shouldn't be any weirdness there

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:06 PM

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well, I turned my software VPN off and now it works

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so that sounds like an issue from your side

rigid oxide Mar 18, 2020, 2:06 PM

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Alright.

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:07 PM

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I should NOT have to turn my VPN off for tryhackme to work

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 2:07 PM

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Depends

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:07 PM

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I do not feel comfortable doing that and never had

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 2:07 PM

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Does your VPN use 10.x.x.x internally?

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:07 PM

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and I've used it that way since I subscirbed for about a week

rigid oxide Mar 18, 2020, 2:07 PM

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You're correct in that statement, that's rather odd that it's not allowing you to connect through it that way

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:08 PM

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I can close all my laptop programs and just run my VM with tryhackme VPN, but I should not have to do that

rigid oxide Mar 18, 2020, 2:08 PM

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I'll give it a try with my vpn later today to see if layering is causing any issues there

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:08 PM

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I love the site but recently, i got the bad taste on my mouth that everytime I report an issue, it is on my end, when is not

rigid oxide Mar 18, 2020, 2:09 PM

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I think there was a misunderstanding there

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:09 PM

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You should be more receptive when people complain

rigid oxide Mar 18, 2020, 2:10 PM

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Give it a moment to look at what James saw from his end, typically that's an issue with the client-side. I believe the misunderstanding was specifically in the layered nature which you're using to connect, something which we don't see as often

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:10 PM

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so let me do this... I will use it without my software VPN for a while, then I will turn off. But the fact is, my VM is fine, never had that issue and tryhackme VPN just died on me and my internet is rock solid here

rigid oxide Mar 18, 2020, 2:10 PM

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The majority of issues encountered in this chat have been encountered before, hence the preconception on our end

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:10 PM

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I will do that for few hours, then turn my software VPN on for few more hours

rigid oxide Mar 18, 2020, 2:11 PM

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No harm meant, we're just relatively used to uses that haven't had experience with OpenVPN which isn't the case for you of course

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:11 PM

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Thanks

rigid oxide Mar 18, 2020, 2:11 PM

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I'm guessing there's a routing issue either via the hosting or something else strange

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It's more of a niche issue which is just a set of bugs were going to encounter more and more. I'll give this a try later on my end as well

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:11 PM

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not trying to be rude, like I said, I love the site, but I am trying to study here and not able to, messes up my whole day

deep trellis Mar 18, 2020, 2:12 PM

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!multivpn

sharp bisonBOT Mar 18, 2020, 2:12 PM

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TryHackMe

• Step 1

Type ps aux | grep openvpn into your terminal and press enter

• Step 2

If there's more than one line (and the second doesn't have "grep" in it), do the following steps

• Step 3

Type killall openvpn into your terminal and press enter

• Step 4

Start the VPN with sudo openvpn <path-to-config>

rigid oxide Mar 18, 2020, 2:12 PM

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Very much understandable haha

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Do you mind if I ask which country you're vpn-ing into when the issue happened? I know this is likely not the root cause here, just looking to replicate as well as I can on my end

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:12 PM

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can I PM you?

rigid oxide Mar 18, 2020, 2:13 PM

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yeah go for it

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one sec

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I have to add folks for dms as I have them otherwise blocked by default

prime epoch Mar 18, 2020, 2:15 PM

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anyone know how i can get the student discount for the subscription?

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 2:16 PM

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@prime epoch Are you a UK student or a different country?

prime epoch Mar 18, 2020, 2:16 PM

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uk

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 2:16 PM

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So you should have an ac.uk email right? @prime epoch

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If that's your primary email, it's automatic

prime epoch Mar 18, 2020, 2:17 PM

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eh i knew this was coming

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 2:17 PM

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Otherwise, not 100% on how you get it. @deep trellis

prime epoch Mar 18, 2020, 2:17 PM

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ive had a request in for months with my college to give us student email addresses

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 2:17 PM

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haha

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I'm sure Skidy can help

deep trellis Mar 18, 2020, 2:17 PM

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@prime epoch email support@tryhackme.com

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I can help you over there

prime epoch Mar 18, 2020, 2:18 PM

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kk

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 2:20 PM

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@rigid oxide Thanks for your time, highly appreciate it

rigid oxide Mar 18, 2020, 2:20 PM

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You're welcome, thank you for your time with breaking down what's going on there with us

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 5:33 PM

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@naive dust 🤔

ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:00 PM

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Hello, I'm new user here, but I have big issue with connection to your resources

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its very very slow

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:01 PM

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is it the kali VM?

ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:01 PM

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i'm trying a vpn connection and bultin kali vm

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many times i'm disconnected from vpn

leaden token Mar 18, 2020, 8:02 PM

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you don't have to connect to VPN from your main system if you are using website's kali

ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:02 PM

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and also VM is running very slow in browser and also via rdp

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:03 PM

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the VM's running fine - something's off with the image transfer, though

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3 seconds per frame.. :D

ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:05 PM

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its hard for me to do anything

fleet wagon Mar 18, 2020, 8:07 PM

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i also have a problem with the site. i did the what the mutivpn bot said and still cant connect to the server

leaden token Mar 18, 2020, 8:08 PM

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it's >1k users now

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just try again

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:09 PM

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It was earlier today as well, and it ran fine

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:10 PM

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@deep trellis is the guac server ok?

deep trellis Mar 18, 2020, 8:18 PM

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@deep trellis is the guac server ok?
@eager fulcrum I think so?

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:18 PM

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Couple people have been reporting issues

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@latent fable RDP or in browser?

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:19 PM

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in browser

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I could try spinning up a new one

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since I closed it

deep trellis Mar 18, 2020, 8:20 PM

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since I closed it
@latent fable yes plz

ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:20 PM

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also via rdp are problems

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:20 PM

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it's initing

fleet wagon Mar 18, 2020, 8:20 PM

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i managed to fix the vpn issue but i have an active machine running and cant access it in the browser (part of the vulversity room)

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:21 PM

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@fleet wagon not all machines run webservers

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:21 PM

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When you say "access" what exactly do you mean?

fleet wagon Mar 18, 2020, 8:21 PM

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unable to connect

warm needle Mar 18, 2020, 8:22 PM

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@zealous yoke Yes i am able to ping the ip address

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latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:22 PM

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You're gonna have to be a little more specific than that, @fleet wagon :) What are you doing? What's the response?

warm needle Mar 18, 2020, 8:23 PM

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oh.. do you have to install a virtual machine?

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sorry im new to Vms dunno how this all works

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:23 PM

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@deep trellis @eager fulcrum Yeah, browser kali is still slow for me.

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:24 PM

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@warm needle what are you trying to do?

ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:24 PM

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I'm trying now connect to server from my VM on my computer

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fleet wagon Mar 18, 2020, 8:24 PM

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ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:24 PM

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i can ping this server, but I can't get thru web brtowser

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:25 PM

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Does the server you connect to have a website service running?

fleet wagon Mar 18, 2020, 8:25 PM

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and i can ping it

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:25 PM

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right, so it's an endpoint

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:25 PM

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... endpoint?

warm needle Mar 18, 2020, 8:25 PM

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@eager fulcrum im trying to connect to the vulnuniversity vm through the browser

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latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:25 PM

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host, computer, call it what you will

warm needle Mar 18, 2020, 8:25 PM

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but it wont let me connect

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:25 PM

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And is it running a web server?

warm needle Mar 18, 2020, 8:26 PM

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?

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i dont know what you mean

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:26 PM

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I see what's happening here

fleet wagon Mar 18, 2020, 8:26 PM

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yeap

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:26 PM

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You're assuming that if you can ping it, then it must have a website. That's not the case

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 8:26 PM

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@warm needle are you expecting to see a control box appear so you can use it in the browser?

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Also, it does, but it's on a non-standard port.

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:26 PM

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Your browser performs HTTP requests. A webserver responds to them with content. If there's not a web server, the browser can't connect

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A web server is a service that listens for HTTP requests on a port and responds to them

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You need to get the right port too

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:27 PM

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granted it even has such a service running

warm needle Mar 18, 2020, 8:28 PM

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uh no, im not even sure what exactly im supposed to be doing lol, in the open vpn room it showed i can connect to the vm room or whatever through the browser using the given IP

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:28 PM

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Normally it's port 80, so you don't need to specify

warm needle Mar 18, 2020, 8:28 PM

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but is there something i need to isntall?

ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:28 PM

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@latent fable sorry I don't get you, if I can ping this server with small latency, why I can't connect to the website?

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:28 PM

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because it's not a website

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:28 PM

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There's something fundamental you're not understanding

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 8:28 PM

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@warm needle Take a look at RP: Nmap

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Not every machine has a webserver on it

fleet wagon Mar 18, 2020, 8:28 PM

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oh thank i got it

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 8:28 PM

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You've got to enumerate (scan) it first

fleet wagon Mar 18, 2020, 8:29 PM

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but it probably needs to be more clear

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:29 PM

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@fleet wagon nope, it's a thing that you'll learn

ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:29 PM

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@latent fable in task I have information that it is web application

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barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 8:29 PM

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Mhm

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That doesn't mean that it's a standard web application

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It's running on an unusual port

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Wait one second

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:30 PM

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Perhaps do the nmap room first? :)

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 8:30 PM

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How many people are asking the same question here

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:30 PM

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Sounds like at least 2

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 8:30 PM

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Because OWASP should be on port 80

fleet wagon Mar 18, 2020, 8:31 PM

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its on port :xxx3

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:31 PM

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3 people asking the same question

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For different rooms

ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:31 PM

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and it is, on your vm i can reach this website but very very slowly

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 8:31 PM

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For different rooms

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Bloody nightmare

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Right, one each?

ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:32 PM

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I have problem in OWASP Juice Shop

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 8:32 PM

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I have problem in OWASP Juice Shop
@ripe grove Have you scanned it?

ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:33 PM

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this is like looks my kali vm

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barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 8:33 PM

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Um

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Is that the in-browser one?

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:33 PM

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yeah, the kali vm connection is bonked

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 8:33 PM

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Because those are having problems rn

ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:33 PM

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yes

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 8:33 PM

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Try minimising firefox in the remote machine?

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Then open it up again?

ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:33 PM

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via rdp is the same situation

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:34 PM

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yeah, the problem is the connection itself, not the browser or the VM

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 8:34 PM

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@deep trellis -- having lots of problems with In-Browser Kali here

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Apparently it's no longer deathly slow

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But, uh, that ^^

ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:34 PM

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but i have very fast internet 600/60

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bottleneck should be somewhere

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:35 PM

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the problem is not your internet, but i suspect the server guys' internet

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tryhackme has become very popular recently. Yesterday they had to install a load balancer for the website!

ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:36 PM

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oh, ok so it should be temporary issue

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:36 PM

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yeah

ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:37 PM

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with vpn the same situation?

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:37 PM

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VPN should be fine

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Load is split across 2 servers already

ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:38 PM

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on vpn i'm still getting disconnect

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tha's why i'm concerned 😉

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becasue all ways are not working for me properly

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:39 PM

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!multivpn

sharp bisonBOT Mar 18, 2020, 8:39 PM

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TryHackMe

• Step 1

Type ps aux | grep openvpn into your terminal and press enter

• Step 2

If there's more than one line (and the second doesn't have "grep" in it), do the following steps

• Step 3

Type killall openvpn into your terminal and press enter

• Step 4

Start the VPN with sudo openvpn <path-to-config>

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:40 PM

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You tried this?

cerulean patio Mar 18, 2020, 8:40 PM

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Any labs on window priv-escalation?

ripe grove Mar 18, 2020, 8:41 PM

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ok, now I tried

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i will check how it wokrs\

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ok looks better 🙂

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many thanks 🙂

deep trellis Mar 18, 2020, 8:50 PM

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yeah, the kali vm connection is bonked
@latent fable ah right, bonked how?

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Just super slow?

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:51 PM

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I'll give it a go

deep trellis Mar 18, 2020, 8:52 PM

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ty

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:52 PM

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Yeah, it's slow. But the VM is fast enough. It's unable to render the screen if text is moving until the text becomes still

deep trellis Mar 18, 2020, 8:54 PM

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📎 unknown.png

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I think thats the next server I upgrade

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:54 PM

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Ah the guac server was ded?

deep trellis Mar 18, 2020, 8:54 PM

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its alive

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but working overtime

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:55 PM

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How does that affect the RDP connections?

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:55 PM

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does grabbing the screen take lower priority?

deep trellis Mar 18, 2020, 8:55 PM

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I'm going to go ahead and guess its essentially streaming through the application. Its a .... Java... application

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 8:56 PM

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the magical curse word.

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:56 PM

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....Skidy no

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Bad

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Kill it with fire

deep trellis Mar 18, 2020, 8:57 PM

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I'll look into it after I finish my Crypto assessment stuff

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Been on this for ages

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:57 PM

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What's in java btw?

deep trellis Mar 18, 2020, 8:57 PM

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Its the guacamole server stuff

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:58 PM

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Interesting

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Didn't think it'd be java

deep trellis Mar 18, 2020, 8:58 PM

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Its easy to upgrade this one, I have it low resources

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:59 PM

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It's all C

deep trellis Mar 18, 2020, 8:59 PM

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So can scale vertically for the moment

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 8:59 PM

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With a tiny amount of java

deep trellis Mar 18, 2020, 9:00 PM

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With a tiny amount of java
@eager fulcrum The way its implemented uses Java

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Like how I've configured it

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Using an OpenSource project on top

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For all the connections to sync with THM (auth)

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 9:03 PM

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Yay java

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 9:05 PM

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yeet java?

eager fulcrum Mar 18, 2020, 9:06 PM

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No, yeet can't be used sarcastically

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 9:07 PM

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:c

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give it a few years

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i'm truly ahead of my time.

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 9:09 PM

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What is java but C# with a bad hair day

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 9:13 PM

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don't forget the IBusinessFactoryFactory habits

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 9:56 PM

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Hi

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trying to work on hackpark, but not able to open the site at all.

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I've killed the VM, start again with different IP, nothing.

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I also killed the VPN connection, connect again, and still no luck

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Hackpark is known to be unstable

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📎 unknown.png

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 9:57 PM

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Can you scan it?

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 9:57 PM

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The best course of action seems to honestly be to reset

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 9:58 PM

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Bearing in mind that you can't ping it?

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 9:58 PM

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~~Urgh. So bright~~

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 9:58 PM

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I do not want to ping it

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I want the site up and running to check the HTML code

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Hackpark is known to be unstable
@naive dust may I know why is that?

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 9:59 PM

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Aye, but if you've not scanned it, how are you meant to know if the server is up...

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 9:59 PM

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It's just a problem with the room

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A bit frustrated here because every time I try to work on an exercise, something is down, broken or does not function properly

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 9:59 PM

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Or indeed, which port its on

leaden token Mar 18, 2020, 9:59 PM

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Windows machines are not the best

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 9:59 PM

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Another day in IT, @naive dust. Another day in IT

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 9:59 PM

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question, are the VMs shared?

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 10:00 PM

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No

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 10:00 PM

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no, this is not "another day" in IT (being in IT 20 years).... the site seems very unstable recently, honestly

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ok... so... to get some progress here, what do you guys suggest?

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 10:00 PM

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yeah, sometimes that happens to systems

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 10:01 PM

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ok... so... to get some progress here, what do you guys suggest?
I would suggest scanning it to see if the server is working...

leaden token Mar 18, 2020, 10:01 PM

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we grew really fast in a recent week, you know

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 10:01 PM

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It's honestly just that some of the machines in paths are unstable @naive dust

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I would suggest scanning it to see if the server is working...
@barren birch well, certainly is not working, I want it up and running

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If you pick a random room odds are it's gonna work fine

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 10:02 PM

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How on earth are you meant to know that if you haven't scanned it?

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It could be on port 32456...

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Just because there is a http server running, doesn't mean that it's on port 80

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 10:02 PM

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How on earth are you meant to know that if you haven't scanned it?
@barren birch sir... is down

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 10:02 PM

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There's a reason enumeration is important

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 10:02 PM

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why I waant to scan it again????

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I know the open ports, I need the HTML

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gosh

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 10:02 PM

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Ok, so you have scanned it. Lovely. Is there a server on port 80

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 10:02 PM

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You know? never mind

leaden token Mar 18, 2020, 10:03 PM

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lol

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 10:03 PM

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@naive dust the best option is to reset until it works honestly

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@naive dust Thanks. That's a more plausible option than "scan it again"

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scan it for what? Is not up, Jesus

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Oracle is just trying to help, we ask that in the future you be kinder when asking for help @naive dust

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is that last 48hrs people here seem to be rude when we ask for help

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I understand your frustrated

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I am trying to be polite but answers and help are 180 degrees different than the main issue

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But these aren't bugs specific to you and the best advice we can give is to reset as there is no fix

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If the machine is down, honestly, scan it again won't fix the main issue

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Oracle thought you hadn't scanned it and assumed there was a web server

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It was just a miscommunication

barren birch Mar 18, 2020, 10:05 PM

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At no point did you say that you had scanned it. Easy to assume that you feel into exactly the same trap as everyone else, and figured it wasn't working because nmap couldn't see it 🤷‍♂️

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 10:06 PM

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but if the main exercise is about port 80 with hydra, and I am saying the webpage is down, how scan it will help?

latent fable Mar 18, 2020, 10:06 PM

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Communication is wicked hard

naive dust Mar 18, 2020, 10:06 PM

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@naive dust we don't have every task memorized

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We were responding with common advice

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I assure you Oracle really was just trying to help

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this morning's scan

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Getting angry will not make us solve your problem faster

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Ok, my bad... I apologize, I understand people of all level of expertise ask questions here

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But Yes, I scanned it and webpage does not come up after resetting it 3 times

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Thank you, know that we are trying to help you

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Let me reset it one more time, if not, I guess is dinner time... but the thing is, being so unstable does not help in terms of productivity, you know, busy life, exams scheduled, etc

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I get it, if hackpack doesn't work after the next reset, take a break and try a different room

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Sounds like a plan

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 2:48 AM

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does anyone know if there is an actual build for kali linux that would work on an amd chip cause i cant find one that works

eager fulcrum Mar 19, 2020, 2:57 AM

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@naive dust AMD or arm?

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Everything works on AMD

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 2:57 AM

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Amd

eager fulcrum Mar 19, 2020, 2:57 AM

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What Amd chip?

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Everything is x86(64) which is intel/amd

uncut hound Mar 19, 2020, 5:44 AM

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📎 question.PNG

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What's this all about then

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Think I found out why

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📎 POG.PNG

ripe grove Mar 19, 2020, 7:41 AM

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Hi, against me 😉 I'm still having problem with VPN

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open adder Mar 19, 2020, 7:49 AM

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@ripe grove had the same thing, i just ended up restarting the host pc

stone roost Mar 19, 2020, 8:44 AM

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<@&568449888682246145> what's going on with the Kali VM guys. is so darn slow. It literally moves in frames

open adder Mar 19, 2020, 8:49 AM

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laughs in self hosted

stone roost Mar 19, 2020, 8:55 AM

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@open adder I have my own VM too, but why should i crack a password on mine to use the resources when i can use the mighty cloud

open adder Mar 19, 2020, 8:55 AM

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tru

stone roost Mar 19, 2020, 9:05 AM

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it's that i don't have a spare graphics card to add it to my vm and nor i want to install the tools on my main OS

rain tendon Mar 19, 2020, 10:12 AM

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@stone roost I use my windows pc to ssh root@<your Kali IP> seems to be alot quicker

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mine is also really slow

idle zodiac Mar 19, 2020, 10:47 AM

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i can't ping the deploy machine

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its the hackpark

leaden token Mar 19, 2020, 10:48 AM

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hack park is a windows machine and therefore doesn't respond to ping

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scan it with nmap with -Pn flag to make sure it's running

idle zodiac Mar 19, 2020, 10:49 AM

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everything response to ping

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but still i will check

leaden token Mar 19, 2020, 10:49 AM

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everything response to ping
no. trust me, i know for a fact that windows machines don't

idle zodiac Mar 19, 2020, 10:50 AM

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no

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they do as well

leaden token Mar 19, 2020, 10:51 AM

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oh, i know what you mean, but hackpark has a ping filter so it doesn't

idle zodiac Mar 19, 2020, 10:51 AM

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ok

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thankyou

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for extended support

leaden token Mar 19, 2020, 10:51 AM

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no problem

idle zodiac Mar 19, 2020, 10:51 AM

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🙂

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u are the admin of tryhack me ?

steel rapids Mar 19, 2020, 10:54 AM

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Nah, people with the same colour as me are designated community mentors

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Admin is red or blue

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 10:55 AM

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but not this blue

steel rapids Mar 19, 2020, 10:55 AM

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Dark blue

idle zodiac Mar 19, 2020, 10:57 AM

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one suggestion i have

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can u please give static ip to machines ?

steel rapids Mar 19, 2020, 10:58 AM

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I think that was looked into before

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 11:01 AM

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Why do you want static addresses?

spare blaze Mar 19, 2020, 11:06 AM

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So that everytime you boot/reboot a machine it's the same IP

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But it's not that much of a feature imo

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 11:07 AM

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so lazy.. :D

idle zodiac Mar 19, 2020, 11:22 AM

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i am lazy

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cri

south steppe Mar 19, 2020, 11:38 AM

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Connection refused when trying to SSH to a box even when thats part if the task,

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 11:39 AM

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does it say what port it's on?

south steppe Mar 19, 2020, 11:39 AM

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Yeah

stone roost Mar 19, 2020, 11:40 AM

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i know @rain tendon i have my own kali

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latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 11:40 AM

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is that port open?

south steppe Mar 19, 2020, 11:40 AM

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ssh -p 65534 holly@IP

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yes

stone roost Mar 19, 2020, 11:40 AM

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but i use the cloud one for a different task

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 11:40 AM

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what happens if you try to telnet to it? Does it still refuse?

prime epoch Mar 19, 2020, 12:05 PM

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hey i was doing a room yesterday, the machine has obviously expired but it doesn't give me an option to get it back?

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ive tried reloading page, relogging

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 12:06 PM

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there's on deploy button in any of the tabs?

prime epoch Mar 19, 2020, 12:06 PM

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nope

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 12:06 PM

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which room?

prime epoch Mar 19, 2020, 12:06 PM

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oh wait

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i found it

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didn't realise i had to open up the first list of tasks again lol

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 12:07 PM

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and yet you said nope before checking..! :D

prime epoch Mar 19, 2020, 12:07 PM

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i thought u meant like the outer tabs

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 12:07 PM

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fair enough, i'm just teasing anyway ;)

prime epoch Mar 19, 2020, 12:07 PM

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ty anyway 🙂

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 12:07 PM

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no problem

zealous yoke Mar 19, 2020, 1:20 PM

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@deep trellis (sorry for ping but I think it's one for you) what's the best way about getting an account on THM deleted? I signed up way back with my Uni email but I'd be surprised if I've even completed a room.

I'd like to apply the student discount on the actual profile I use

deep trellis Mar 19, 2020, 1:20 PM

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email us from that email, I'll delete it for you:)

zealous yoke Mar 19, 2020, 1:21 PM

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would you want the hello@tryhackme.com one?

deep trellis Mar 19, 2020, 1:21 PM

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support@ 🙂

zealous yoke Mar 19, 2020, 1:21 PM

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ah! Okies, thanks buddy

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Will do now

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sent :^

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 5:32 PM

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Hi,I cant deploy my Kali Machine VM

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next to ip is undefined

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 5:33 PM

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gimme a sec. I'll try

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 5:33 PM

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ok

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 5:34 PM

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You're a subscriber, right?

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 5:34 PM

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yes

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 5:34 PM

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just checking :)

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 5:36 PM

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maybe my session is hanged up somewhere

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 5:36 PM

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works fine here

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try to terminate it if you can and redeploy

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 5:37 PM

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done that

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 5:37 PM

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hmmm

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refresh the page?

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 5:38 PM

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logged of from vpn,fixed it

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thanks

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 5:38 PM

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sweet :)

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:27 PM

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Hello, I need help with open vpn

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:28 PM

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what's your question?

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:28 PM

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!vpn

sharp bisonBOT Mar 19, 2020, 6:28 PM

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TryHackMe

Learn how to use OpenVPN to connect to our network!

https://tryhackme.com/room/openvpn

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:28 PM

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@versed sentinel

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:29 PM

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My vpn keeps saying check network connection

📎 Screenshot_2.png

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:30 PM

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Are you connected to the internet

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:30 PM

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Yes

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:31 PM

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Has it ever worked before

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:31 PM

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I just got it today

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:31 PM

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You can try regenning your config

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That may help

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:31 PM

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Okay

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it still doesn't work

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:38 PM

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Maybe Abit of a long shot but is there a chance your network blocks openvpn

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I know that's happened to a few of our college students

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:38 PM

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how would i check that?

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:39 PM

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Where are you connected from?

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home? Work? School?

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:39 PM

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You can try connecting from a different place like your home or public businesses

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But if your connected at a university there is a non zero chance openvpn may just be blocked

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:40 PM

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im at my home

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:40 PM

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Is the internet shared in any way?

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:40 PM

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what do you mean? lol

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:41 PM

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Do other people use your internet

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:41 PM

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like is it an apartment where you get internet from the landlord

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:41 PM

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Yes, other people do use my internet but my ISP is specturm

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i don't live in an apartment

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:42 PM

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Do you have a vps per chance @versed sentinel

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:43 PM

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vps?

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:43 PM

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Maybe to rule out the config file you can try connecting from it

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Then nvm

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:43 PM

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sorry I don't know much lol

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:44 PM

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virtual private server ;)

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:44 PM

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Ohhhhh

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:44 PM

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A remote computer that you control @versed sentinel

icy bluff Mar 19, 2020, 6:44 PM

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they’re pretty cheap

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:44 PM

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No I do not

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:44 PM

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and it's a lot of fun to have a box you can just remote into

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:44 PM

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^^^

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:44 PM

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could you guys hop in a call?

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:44 PM

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I have one

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Very handy

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:46 PM

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how would I get one? like do I need it?

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:46 PM

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You probably don't need it as it's probably not the config file

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:46 PM

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you don't need one, but you also don't need a home

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:46 PM

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For other purposes though it's handy

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:46 PM

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lamooooo

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:46 PM

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@latent fable well now hold on 😂😂😂

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:46 PM

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Lmao*

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:47 PM

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seriously, though. Having a bunch of VMs all laid out on a network is wonderful

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:47 PM

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😂

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:47 PM

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I didn't have access to anything like that before my current workplace, and I'm not going back

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:47 PM

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I have a minecraft server

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😂

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:47 PM

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do you control the server? Like can you ssh/rdp into it?

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:47 PM

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Yes

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:47 PM

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Is it at your home

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:48 PM

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you can test with that then - it's essencially a vps :)

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oh

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fair point

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:48 PM

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Yes

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:48 PM

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well then. nevermind.. :D

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:48 PM

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Then test it there it will help confirm if it really is your internet blocking the vpn

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It can't hurt to try

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:48 PM

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that's true

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could be a problem with the computer

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:49 PM

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I ssh into my kali linux rasberry pi all the time

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:49 PM

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Mhm

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:49 PM

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and its not at my home

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:49 PM

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So you have a raspberry pi aswell

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Oh then yeah

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Use that

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:49 PM

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raspies are also great

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:49 PM

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how would I use it?

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:49 PM

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Hm?

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Scp the config file over

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And then just openvpn it

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:50 PM

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basically, yeah

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:50 PM

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ohhhhh

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:50 PM

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there are instructions for linux on the vpn page thingy

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:50 PM

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!vpn

sharp bisonBOT Mar 19, 2020, 6:50 PM

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TryHackMe

Learn how to use OpenVPN to connect to our network!

https://tryhackme.com/room/openvpn

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 6:50 PM

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^^^^^

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:50 PM

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that's the one

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:54 PM

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thank you

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:54 PM

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Did it work?

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 6:54 PM

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im installing now

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 6:54 PM

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right right~

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:01 PM

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it’s soooo slow

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 7:01 PM

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well, it is a raspi

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:01 PM

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Lmao 🤣

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true dat

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does my account have to be verified?

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:10 PM

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Verified?

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:10 PM

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yea

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:10 PM

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What do you mean

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:11 PM

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On the website it said click here to get verified

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:11 PM

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That's for your email

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:11 PM

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ohhh

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My openvpn still doesn’t work

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:13 PM

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Even on the rasppi?

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Which is on a different network right

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:14 PM

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yes

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yes

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:15 PM

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Same error?

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:15 PM

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Yup

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:16 PM

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Then this may be some weird bug

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You should try posting the error screenshot in #site-bugs

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:18 PM

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Okay

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Thank you

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I figured out how to get it to work

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I have to use my data hotspot on my phone connect to my laptop and install/run openvpn on there and then get on my PC

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:23 PM

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So your network was blocking it

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:23 PM

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Yea? I don’t know why

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 7:23 PM

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Random thought

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what's the network mask on your home network?

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:24 PM

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255.255.255.0

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 7:24 PM

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hm

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totally normal

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:24 PM

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Yeah

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:24 PM

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I have no idea then to what’s going on

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:25 PM

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For some reason your network blocks openvpn

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:25 PM

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and when I installed openvpn on my raspbi it just crashes when I run it

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 7:25 PM

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oh, hehe

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poor thing

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:26 PM

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Aww

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:26 PM

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how could I change it so it doesn’t block it, I have full access to my wifi network

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like admin login to everything

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and if it’s wrong i’ll just use drillbit on kali to get the password

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 7:27 PM

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at this point it sounds like magic, but i'm sure there's an explaination somewhere

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could it be an issue with the ISP?

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:27 PM

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Possibly

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:27 PM

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That's the only think I'm thinking of @latent fable

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 7:27 PM

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I'm not that versed with VPN stuff

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:28 PM

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If it's blocked on your network you might want to contact your ISP @versed sentinel

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:28 PM

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Okay

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do I just call them?

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:28 PM

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Are you the primary account holder?

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:28 PM

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Yes

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 7:29 PM

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~~Tell them to fix their shit~~ Give them a nice call

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:29 PM

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Then I suppose so, because other than that we at thm can't really do anything else

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:29 PM

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Definitely need to

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like tf why you gotta do me like dat

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😂😂🤣

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 7:30 PM

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They might have had a legitimate reason to block it for ~~stupid~~ general consumers

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:30 PM

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I use spectrum as my ISP and they don't block it for me @latent fable

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:30 PM

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I can’t even think of a reason to block it

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 7:31 PM

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oh

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:31 PM

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Since he uses spectrum as well I doubt it just comes pre blicked

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 7:31 PM

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yeah

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:31 PM

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So you really should give them a call and see if they're doing anything

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:31 PM

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Okay will do

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 7:31 PM

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I know that some malware uses VPNs to facilitate communications, @versed sentinel, but yeah, it's probably not that

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:31 PM

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Good luck and godspeed with customer support

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:32 PM

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Lol

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 7:32 PM

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oh god, not customer support

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:32 PM

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Customer support sucks but like they say “ Customers are always right “

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 7:32 PM

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except when they aren't

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.. which is most of the time

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:33 PM

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Lol

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:34 PM

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customer: hey I have this coupon but it's expired can I still use it
not customer:No it's expired
customer: but the customer is always right let me use the coupon!
not customer: no

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:34 PM

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Lmao

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 7:37 PM

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Honestly, you can't blame CS for being a bunch of dicks sometimes given the shit they have to put up with

versed sentinel Mar 19, 2020, 7:38 PM

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Fair statement

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Thank you guys so much for your help I really appreciate it

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 7:45 PM

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no problem, my dude

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 7:45 PM

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Any time :)

severe furnace Mar 19, 2020, 9:03 PM

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Hi admins, can someone tell me whether I can run hashcat on the THM Kali machine?

naive dust Mar 19, 2020, 9:03 PM

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You can @severe furnace

severe furnace Mar 19, 2020, 9:03 PM

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Thanks

eager fulcrum Mar 19, 2020, 9:04 PM

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@severe furnace You will need to use --force as there's no GPU

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 9:05 PM

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is it actually feasible to do that for the rooms? I'm not super versed in hash cracking

severe furnace Mar 19, 2020, 9:05 PM

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Yes @eager fulcrum Im planning to use it like that

eager fulcrum Mar 19, 2020, 9:06 PM

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@latent fable Yes, other than some very old rooms. Guidance is hash cracking should be under 5mins and I personally test on my laptop and the THM kali machine as well as my desktop with GPU

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 9:06 PM

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Very well :)

narrow mesa Mar 19, 2020, 9:51 PM

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I'm having issues connecting to the network. When trying to run theopenvpn with my configuration file, I get error message:
"Thu Mar 19 22:47:52 2020 OpenSSL: error:0B080074:x509 certificate routines:X509_check_private_key:key values mismatch
Thu Mar 19 22:47:52 2020 Cannot load private key file [[INLINE]]
Thu Mar 19 22:47:52 2020 Error: private key password verification failed
Thu Mar 19 22:47:52 2020 Exiting due to fatal error"
Anything you can do to help?

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 9:52 PM

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Have you tried regenerating the config file?

narrow mesa Mar 19, 2020, 9:52 PM

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Yes

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 9:52 PM

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hmm

narrow mesa Mar 19, 2020, 9:53 PM

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I'm running a clean install of Kali on Debian with a virtual machine

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 9:53 PM

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is the vm on your local computer?

narrow mesa Mar 19, 2020, 9:53 PM

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yes

eager fulcrum Mar 19, 2020, 9:53 PM

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!multivpn

sharp bisonBOT Mar 19, 2020, 9:53 PM

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TryHackMe

• Step 1

Type ps aux | grep openvpn into your terminal and press enter

• Step 2

If there's more than one line (and the second doesn't have "grep" in it), do the following steps

• Step 3

Type killall openvpn into your terminal and press enter

• Step 4

Start the VPN with sudo openvpn <path-to-config>

eager fulcrum Mar 19, 2020, 9:53 PM

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Do that

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 9:53 PM

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oh, there's a thing for that already

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wait, that was not what I thought it was, but yeah, do that~

narrow mesa Mar 19, 2020, 9:55 PM

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Didn't work

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 9:56 PM

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are you connecting the VM or your main computer?

narrow mesa Mar 19, 2020, 9:56 PM

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VM

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 9:56 PM

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have you tried the computer?

narrow mesa Mar 19, 2020, 9:56 PM

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no

eager fulcrum Mar 19, 2020, 9:56 PM

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Don't

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Doesn't work well

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 9:56 PM

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no?

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hmm

eager fulcrum Mar 19, 2020, 9:56 PM

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NAT makes it hassle

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What hypervisor?

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 9:56 PM

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Ah, right.

stone roost Mar 19, 2020, 9:57 PM

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nat works fine lol

narrow mesa Mar 19, 2020, 9:57 PM

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Oracle

eager fulcrum Mar 19, 2020, 9:57 PM

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Sounds like the certificate isn't properly valid

narrow mesa Mar 19, 2020, 9:57 PM

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VM box mananger

eager fulcrum Mar 19, 2020, 9:57 PM

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@stone roost VM from the HOST with NAT is iffy

barren birch Mar 19, 2020, 9:57 PM

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Agreed with James on that one ^^

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Always better to connect inside the VM

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Saves a world of hassle

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 9:58 PM

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nat is dum. I dun liek.

zealous yoke Mar 19, 2020, 9:58 PM

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The error is defo a problem with the certificate tho

eager fulcrum Mar 19, 2020, 9:58 PM

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But it does sound like a dodgy cert

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 9:58 PM

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yeah, but why would it do that?

eager fulcrum Mar 19, 2020, 9:58 PM

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@narrow mesa How many times have you regenerated and redownloaded?

barren birch Mar 19, 2020, 9:58 PM

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Mhm

zealous yoke Mar 19, 2020, 9:58 PM

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openssl has buggered somewhere during generation

narrow mesa Mar 19, 2020, 9:58 PM

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maybe 3 times

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I also reinstalled my Kali

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same thing

eager fulcrum Mar 19, 2020, 9:58 PM

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@zealous yoke Or validation

narrow mesa Mar 19, 2020, 10:04 PM

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So no clue?

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 10:04 PM

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it seems a little confusing. A SSH key shouldn't depend on external factors, so why would it fail?

steel rapids Mar 19, 2020, 10:05 PM

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This sounds above our pay grade to me

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 10:05 PM

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At least mine. I may know a bit about all that stuff, but in the end, I'm just a programmer :p

narrow mesa Mar 19, 2020, 10:05 PM

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Have you heard about something aboput this before?

barren birch Mar 19, 2020, 10:06 PM

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No

narrow mesa Mar 19, 2020, 10:06 PM

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huh

barren birch Mar 19, 2020, 10:06 PM

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Might be worth calling Skidy?

narrow mesa Mar 19, 2020, 10:06 PM

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Could it be my VM?

barren birch Mar 19, 2020, 10:06 PM

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Reckon that's a backend problem

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Naw, sounds like it's the authentication in your VPN key

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 10:06 PM

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It connected though -else the key couldn't have failed-, it shouldn't be your VM

barren birch Mar 19, 2020, 10:06 PM

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I'm having issues connecting to the network. When trying to run theopenvpn with my configuration file, I get error message:
"Thu Mar 19 22:47:52 2020 OpenSSL: error:0B080074:x509 certificate routines:X509_check_private_key:key values mismatch
Thu Mar 19 22:47:52 2020 Cannot load private key file [[INLINE]]
Thu Mar 19 22:47:52 2020 Error: private key password verification failed
Thu Mar 19 22:47:52 2020 Exiting due to fatal error"
Anything you can do to help?
@narrow mesa @deep trellis, any ideas?

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Config has been regenerated three times

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 10:07 PM

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and the VM reinstalled

zealous yoke Mar 19, 2020, 10:07 PM

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It's server-side

deep trellis Mar 19, 2020, 10:07 PM

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@narrow mesa Can you please send me your config file?

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So I can test it

narrow mesa Mar 19, 2020, 10:07 PM

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yh sure

deep trellis Mar 19, 2020, 10:08 PM

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Thanks guys for pinging me too:) Sometimes miss these

latent fable Mar 19, 2020, 10:08 PM

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inb4 this was all an elaborate scam to get Dappner's private key

whole tusk Mar 20, 2020, 3:11 AM

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How long does it take for a deployed room to populate? I am running on Kali VM and OpenVPN is connected, am joined to room but I didn't see a room populate.

📎 unknown.png

barren birch Mar 20, 2020, 3:12 AM

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What do you mean, populate @whole tusk?

whole tusk Mar 20, 2020, 3:13 AM

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Hey @barren birch I saw some YouTube videos where someone on tryhackme woud see a VM after entering a room. Something visual.

barren birch Mar 20, 2020, 3:13 AM

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Ah, that's only for very specific machines

whole tusk Mar 20, 2020, 3:13 AM

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I apologize for my ignorance, but I'm not sure how this works.

eager fulcrum Mar 20, 2020, 3:13 AM

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That's only like, 2 rooms

barren birch Mar 20, 2020, 3:13 AM

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That isn't one of them

whole tusk Mar 20, 2020, 3:13 AM

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OH!

eager fulcrum Mar 20, 2020, 3:13 AM

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Actually it might be 3

whole tusk Mar 20, 2020, 3:13 AM

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I had no idea.

barren birch Mar 20, 2020, 3:13 AM

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Are you a subscriber @whole tusk?

whole tusk Mar 20, 2020, 3:14 AM

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I am not, I am only using free rooms for now.

barren birch Mar 20, 2020, 3:14 AM

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Fair enough

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You'll need your own Kali VM then

whole tusk Mar 20, 2020, 3:14 AM

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Thank you @barren birch .

barren birch Mar 20, 2020, 3:14 AM

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Connect up to the VPN with that, then scan the IP the website gave you 😄

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No problem!

whole tusk Mar 20, 2020, 3:15 AM

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Let me go to Terminal. I am connected with VPN.

barren birch Mar 20, 2020, 3:15 AM

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👍

whole tusk Mar 20, 2020, 3:16 AM

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By scan, do you mean nmap?

barren birch Mar 20, 2020, 3:17 AM

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Yep

whole tusk Mar 20, 2020, 3:18 AM

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That's it @barren birch ? I all I need to do is scan the IP and I answer the questions based off that? In other words, that is the normal procedure for using TryHackMe?

barren birch Mar 20, 2020, 3:18 AM

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Uh, kinda

eager fulcrum Mar 20, 2020, 3:18 AM

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No there's a lot more

barren birch Mar 20, 2020, 3:18 AM

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Every room is teaching something different

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So in one particular room, yeah, that's all you need to do

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In the room you're in you'll need to see which ports are open

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Connect to one of them

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The webserver

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Exploit a Local File Inclusion vulnerability

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Then access the machine in another way

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I will leave the rest for you to figure out 😁

whole tusk Mar 20, 2020, 3:19 AM

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Thank you!

barren birch Mar 20, 2020, 3:19 AM

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But yeah, the nmap scan is just the very beginning

whole tusk Mar 20, 2020, 3:19 AM

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I'll start here for now.

barren birch Mar 20, 2020, 3:20 AM

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Think of these machines as being like real life, in a sense. You know that these ones will be vulnerable, but they are full machines, with lots of different types of exploit

whole tusk Mar 20, 2020, 3:20 AM

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Let me get some snacks and I'll start digging. Take care for now!

barren birch Mar 20, 2020, 3:21 AM

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Happy Hacking!

idle zodiac Mar 20, 2020, 6:59 AM

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hi cannot access the machine website

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 7:07 AM

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@idle zodiac did you make sure it actually has a webserver running

dense wedge Mar 20, 2020, 9:07 AM

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I would need guidelines too on how to solve a box

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What must someone put in mind to get started

leaden token Mar 20, 2020, 9:10 AM

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is it a walkthrough box?

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if yes, then it contains enough guidance to solve it. additionally you can look at the write-ups which can help you solve

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:19 AM

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Hi all, i cannot ssh on a machine deployed in the room commonlinuxprivesec (link https://tryhackme.com/room/commonlinuxprivesc)

TryHackMe | Why Subscribe

TryHackMe is an online platform for learning and teaching cyber security.

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I'm trying from a kali linux machine on vmware, the openvpn with configuration files is connected

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i can ping the ip address 10.10.25.34 which supposedly should be the ip address of the machine

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the ssh just gives me a connection timed out

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anybody has some piece of advice?

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:27 AM

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Are you connecting on the right port? I haven't done that one yet, but it's on my list

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:28 AM

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i don't know @latent fable, in the room it doesn't specify a port so i guessed it was by default the 22

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:29 AM

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which #task is it? I'll have a look

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:29 AM

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task 4, first question

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The very beginning "Let's start to ssh in the machine"

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Maybe it does work only if i deploy the kali machine on the tryhackme.com itself?

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and doesn't from a different kali vmware machine?

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:30 AM

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You need either that, or to be connected on openvpn

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:31 AM

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i'm connected through openvpn on the kalivmware machine

leaden token Mar 20, 2020, 9:31 AM

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no,
you deploy a machine using the 'deploy' button and then you are supposed to ssh into it

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from your VM

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:31 AM

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Yes @leaden token, that's what i did. i deployed the machine inside the room commonlinuxprivesec

leaden token Mar 20, 2020, 9:32 AM

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then you are given with ip

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:32 AM

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then took the ip it gave me (in this case 10.10.24.35)

leaden token Mar 20, 2020, 9:32 AM

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okay

#

perfect

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:32 AM

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then went to my kaly vmware machine

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ssh 10.10.25.34

leaden token Mar 20, 2020, 9:32 AM

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sss username@ip

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:32 AM

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and all it gives is a connection timed out

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:32 AM

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did you ping from inside that vm?

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:32 AM

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it does ping 10.10.25.34

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:32 AM

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technically you don't need to give the username

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:33 AM

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it's the same even if i user3@10.10.25.34

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:33 AM

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yeah

leaden token Mar 20, 2020, 9:33 AM

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are you sure that ssh port is 22

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:33 AM

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it is

leaden token Mar 20, 2020, 9:33 AM

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try scaninng it

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:33 AM

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i just checked

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it works fine for me

leaden token Mar 20, 2020, 9:33 AM

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okay

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:33 AM

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i checked on the /etc/ssh/sshd_config files

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it's 22

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and on the room it doesn't specify anything different

leaden token Mar 20, 2020, 9:34 AM

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try redeploying and wait ~3 minutes

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:34 AM

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i had the same error yesterday's night

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:34 AM

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sounds like a broken deployment, yes

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oh

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you're not on some wicked crazy network/ISP, right?

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before you redeploy

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could you try from the kali vm on the website?

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:35 AM

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you mean i deploy a kali on the website and try to ssh from there?

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:35 AM

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yeah

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:35 AM

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I won't need the openvpn in that case, right?

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:35 AM

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https://tryhackme.com/room/kali this one

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correct

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:35 AM

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ok wait a sec

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i need to drink, i gotta stay hydrated

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drink guys, you gotta stay hydrated

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public service message

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it's deploying

leaden token Mar 20, 2020, 9:37 AM

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and stay home too!

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:37 AM

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yes, drink corona beer

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they need it in these times

leaden token Mar 20, 2020, 9:38 AM

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yes, drink corona beer
EU 18+
US 21+

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Germany is 16+ tho

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:38 AM

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pretend to drink corona beer if you're not of legal drinking age

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other countries too

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:40 AM

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yeah it does work inside the website

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i can ssh connect

leaden token Mar 20, 2020, 9:42 AM

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nice!

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:42 AM

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so the issue is from my machine

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might be the firewall's not whitelisted the 22?

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:43 AM

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what sort of network are you on?

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:43 AM

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private one, home one?

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:43 AM

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consumer level firewalls usually only block ingoing connections

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which country/ISP?

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:43 AM

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France right now

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Sfr

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:43 AM

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hm

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frace isn't one of those totalitarian places that locks consumer things down

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so it must be a configuration issue with the openvpn thing

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:44 AM

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maybe i should try to connect at my own machine? to give it a try?

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like trying to open a ssh server?

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:44 AM

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instead of the VM on the phyiscal machine? Try

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:45 AM

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i don't know how to that in windows

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:45 AM

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ssh in cmd

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:45 AM

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i wanted to connect from my vmware kali to my windows

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yeah but i don't know how to open the serve

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r

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in windows

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:45 AM

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one step at a time :)

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see if the physical machine can connect

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:46 AM

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to my kali?

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oh

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To the site

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ok

leaden token Mar 20, 2020, 9:46 AM

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to the site's machine

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:46 AM

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to the target machine, yes

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:47 AM

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nope

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seems to be network issue then

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:47 AM

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did you run openvpn inside kali or on the physical machine?

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:47 AM

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inside kali yes, and it wasn't able to connect

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on the windows physical of course not

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i forgot

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:47 AM

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yeah :)

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try to stop openvpn on the kali box and run it on the physical machine

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:48 AM

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but i have to set the openvpn on windows

leaden token Mar 20, 2020, 9:48 AM

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!vpn

sharp bisonBOT Mar 20, 2020, 9:48 AM

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TryHackMe

Learn how to use OpenVPN to connect to our network!

https://tryhackme.com/room/openvpn

leaden token Mar 20, 2020, 9:48 AM

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!multivpn

sharp bisonBOT Mar 20, 2020, 9:48 AM

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TryHackMe

• Step 1

Type ps aux | grep openvpn into your terminal and press enter

• Step 2

If there's more than one line (and the second doesn't have "grep" in it), do the following steps

• Step 3

Type killall openvpn into your terminal and press enter

• Step 4

Start the VPN with sudo openvpn <path-to-config>

leaden token Mar 20, 2020, 9:48 AM

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this ^

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:48 AM

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those, yes

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:50 AM

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ps aux |grep openvpn does indeed show me three lines of openvpn, but killall openvpn says no process found

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repeating ps aux | grep etc. after that shows me the very same three lines

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(two of tmux, one of grep)

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:51 AM

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You could try killing their processes by their PID

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:52 AM

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ok

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now i have only one line of grep openvpn

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:52 AM

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killem all. We wanna try from the host

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:53 AM

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root@kali:~# ps aux | grep openvpn
root 2648 0.0 0.0 6144 960 pts/3 S+ 05:52 0:00 grep openvpn
root@kali:~# killall openvpn
openvpn: no process found
root@kali:~# kill 2648
bash: kill: (2648) - No such process

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:54 AM

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good

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now connect to openvpn from the physical machine

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 9:55 AM

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alright

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 9:55 AM

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yeah

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 10:02 AM

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ok, openvpn connected, tryhackme/access told me everything's up and running, ssh from the host don't want to connect

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 10:03 AM

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and the kali vm on the thm website can still connect?

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 10:03 AM

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ugh, i closed it

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 10:03 AM

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:D

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 10:04 AM

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yes kali website connects

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 10:05 AM

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can your physical computer ping the target machine?

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 10:05 AM

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pings it

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it does

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yep

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 10:05 AM

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hmmm

idle zodiac Mar 20, 2020, 10:05 AM

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great support

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 10:05 AM

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really

great support
@idle zodiac

idle zodiac Mar 20, 2020, 10:06 AM

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between i am also getting this error

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but I always first google

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 10:06 AM

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I'm just procrastinating from work, really :p

idle zodiac Mar 20, 2020, 10:06 AM

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@latent fable thank you for the support

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 10:06 AM

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:)

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have you tried regenerating the openvpn connection file, @naive dust ?

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 10:07 AM

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i'll try, but i've just downloaded

idle zodiac Mar 20, 2020, 10:07 AM

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if he reconnect it will create multiples connections

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 10:08 AM

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yes, gotta kill the connections again

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!multivpn

sharp bisonBOT Mar 20, 2020, 10:08 AM

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TryHackMe

• Step 1

Type ps aux | grep openvpn into your terminal and press enter

• Step 2

If there's more than one line (and the second doesn't have "grep" in it), do the following steps

• Step 3

Type killall openvpn into your terminal and press enter

• Step 4

Start the VPN with sudo openvpn <path-to-config>

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 10:08 AM

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oh, wait, the physical machine was windows, right?

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well, you get the point. Kill them off, start with new config :p

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 10:08 AM

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let's try

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I'm in from the host machine!

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now i'll kill it and try from the kalivmware to do the same

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 10:11 AM

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exactly!

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 10:11 AM

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one thing though

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Can i interact

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Like

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I've got the tryhackme room opened in windows right?

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And the openvpn opened in kalivmware

latent fable Mar 20, 2020, 10:12 AM

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yeah?

naive dust Mar 20, 2020, 10:12 AM

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So i take the address of the target machine

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from windows

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not from inside the kali vmware browser