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barren birch
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The bot is our friend

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There's a reason it has CM 😆

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Not at all because I dared Dark to do it

eager fulcrum
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I thought I did it?

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Show us what you're doing on the other shell

naive dust
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oh sorry

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how does the bot work? i am curious

sharp bear
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probably wrong channel for that

eager fulcrum
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@naive dust It works like any discord bot

naive dust
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i am new to discord as well

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😅

barren birch
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That's a google_it question

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!github

sharp bisonBOT
barren birch
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Huh, that actually worked

naive dust
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how do all bots work lol

barren birch
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Who knew

eager fulcrum
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Bot are programs that can act like users

naive dust
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how does it listen and provide all these informations lol is that an example of automations

eager fulcrum
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They have a command prefix and a set of commands

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Discord API

barren birch
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!help

sharp bisonBOT
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#####	HELP	#####
{required args} | [optional args]

> Room
vpn | Learn how to use OpenVPN to connect to the network.
multivpn | Learn how to look for duplicate instance of your OpenVPN connection.
writeup {room_code} | Get the writeups for a room.

> Help
staff | Displays all staff commands.
help | Displays all commands.

> Fun Commands
skidy | Sends Skidy's emote.
ashu | Send Ashu's emote.
dark | Send a random Darkstar quote.
honk | HOOONK!
boop {@user} | Boop someone!
shibe | Sends shibe!
spaniel | SPANIEL
xkcd | Send a random XKCD comic.

> Social
github | Get the bot's Github link.
twitter | Get the Twitter link.
reddit | Get the Reddit link.
website | Get the Website link.
social | Get links to all our socials.
tweet | Get THM's last tweet.

> Leaderboard Commands
leaderboard | Prints the leaderboard.
monthly | Prints this month's leaderboard.

> Rank Commands
rank {username} | Get a THM member's rank.

> Verifying/Role Assigning Commands
verify {token} | Verify yourself to get your roles.

> Rules Commands
rules | Sends the rules.
eager fulcrum
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If you want to learn how discord bots work in general, do some research

barren birch
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Believe it or not, it's really not as hard as you'd think. I made my first one the other day. The Discord API is, uh.. but it's easy enough to get something running

naive dust
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im actually scared lol

eager fulcrum
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?

naive dust
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so i did 'sudo apt install openvpn' command in my Downloads directory in kali

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i did the locate command on openvpn afterward to see where exactly the file was downloaded and there was multiple paths

sharp bear
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openvpn is already on kali

naive dust
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my question is what is the exact path i need to put when i do the sudo openvpn command

sharp bear
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sudo openvpn <path to config file>.ovpn

naive dust
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umm 😟

eager fulcrum
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openvpn is a program

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You need to download your config file

naive dust
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on kali?

eager fulcrum
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Yes.

naive dust
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what command?

eager fulcrum
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OpenVPN needs to know where to connect to, and needs some cryptographic stuff to authenticate you to the tryhackme vpn server

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What do you mean what command?

naive dust
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and in what directory?

eager fulcrum
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??

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To accomplish what?

naive dust
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to download the config file

eager fulcrum
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You need to download it from the tryhackme website

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!vpn

sharp bisonBOT
eager fulcrum
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Follow this

naive dust
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and i just got logged out of my THM account for trying to change my passwrd too many times while in another browser in another computer (kali virtual machine)

eager fulcrum
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Close the browser session and start a new one

naive dust
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so i did it and got something like this and checked the vpn in the network section in the settings menu and the vpn tab says that no vpn has been configured is this normal, or is it that the vpn was not shown because it was configured in the terminal, and one more question, how to i turn it off now in the terminal?

eager fulcrum
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Ignore the kali network section

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Control C to disconnect

naive dust
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so i need to start a new terminal tab and keep that one open if i want to keep the vpn open right?

eager fulcrum
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That's the ideal

naive dust
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what if i type clear?

eager fulcrum
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You can't type in that terminal tab if the VPN is running

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Or well

barren birch
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Either nothing happens, or it breaks spectacularly

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Try it

eager fulcrum
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You can type

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But you can't run commands

barren birch
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There's a running process in that tab already

naive dust
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so i have foxy proxy installed in my firefox inside my kali machine and when i used it to check my ip its showing my exact ip address linked to my exact location and when i tried to connect to http://10.10.36.181 it worked.

barren birch
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??

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Is there a problem there?...

naive dust
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shouldnt my ip have changed since im connected to a vpn

barren birch
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That VPN serves as a gateway into the THM network

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It's not an anonymising VPN

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And the rest of your traffic will still be being directed normally

naive dust
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ahh how do i change the ip address shown in my firefox or how do i anonymize my traffic?

barren birch
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Use an anonymising VPN...

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That has nothing to do with THM though

mint gust
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Similar to @random ravine 's question earlier, anyone know how to paste a link into tryhackme's browser - based kali machine?

naive dust
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i was working on the metasploit room in THM and i found an error related problem in the task 7 "makin' Cisco proud" question #2 that asked : "Additionally, we can start a socks4a proxy server out of this session. Background our current meterpreter session and run the command search server/socks4a. What is the full path to the socks4a auxiliary module? "

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i did the command twice and it did not work

grim quail
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Unable to get reverse shells in

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From win10 machine

lilac ocean
mighty lance
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it took me a long time to connect to the vpn

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not knowing that am suppose to use this command

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sudo openvpn Downloads/cyberflamez.ovp

raw rampart
hushed oxide
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@raw rampart is it your own machine?

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normally this is a problem with your tmux config .... (if you're doing everything right)

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or you're(/something) is killing it

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does it even say it detached?

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that's what it should looke like 😉

digital yarrow
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my kaspesky suddenly detecting these as trojans

eager fulcrum
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@digital yarrow maybe because it genuinely is malware?

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You're complaining that your antivirus picks up readily available exploits as exploits

digital yarrow
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no i'm complaining

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that there is kali in all those viruses

eager fulcrum
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Yes because it's in a file path for kali

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Probably you used WSL or something

digital yarrow
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not familiar with the WSL acronym

eager fulcrum
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Basically. You downloaded or installed something. This isn't directly tryhackme related. Not for this channel.

digital yarrow
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well most of us downloaded Kali for THM

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and thought maybe someone else encountered this issue

eager fulcrum
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@digital yarrow no.

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A VM won't be picked up

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Because the files don't exist on the host OS

digital yarrow
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sorry @eager fulcrum

void bramble
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Hey, i've been having an issue with booting up my kali machine on THM. I was having this issue a couple of days ago as well but sometimes when i try to turn it on it lets me in as normal but then kicks me out after liek 5 minutes. Other times it just doesn't let me in.

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here is the error

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I try clicking 'Reconnect' but that just brings back the eroor

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error*

deep trellis
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Whats your THM username?

void bramble
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Hackmaster007

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cringey Ik😂

deep trellis
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Did you terminate the machine?

void bramble
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yes

deep trellis
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Because I can't find it running

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Ah

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If that happens again, please @ me and leave it running

void bramble
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ok will do

void bramble
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@deep trellis

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it happened again

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the machine is still online

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@deep trellis but there's only 35mins left on the box before it terminates

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my username is Hackmaster007

eager fulcrum
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You know you can extend them right?

void bramble
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ik but for me its unclickable

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dont know why

eager fulcrum
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refresh

void bramble
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i just did that and know the machine isn't deployed????

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now*

deep trellis
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@deep trellis but there's only 35mins left on the box before it terminates
@void bramble Hi there

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Is the machine still online?

void bramble
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I refreshed it and it's offline

deep trellis
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So you were using it, and then it gave you that error message. 25 Minutes in or so

void bramble
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Yes

deep trellis
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It looks like someone reset your machine's password.

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Looks like I am moving up randomized password functionality to this week

void bramble
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Oh

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So will I still be able to use the machine?

deep trellis
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Yes I think so, going to further investigate incase I am wrong

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Sorry about that.

void bramble
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Ok, just wanted to say i
When I got that message I clicked home and the it showed me recent connections with the box ip??

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Don't know if that's significant

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Nah it's cool

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It was like a white window

heavy field
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Guys I am having real issues with access to internet while on the VPN.....this is killing me now. Please can someone take a look at this for me? I cannot hit anything externally on the VPN. Which means I have to kill my VPN which if you are already on the box and accessing the victim machine is a real pain.....

Cloning into 'firefox_decrypt'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/Unode/firefox_decrypt.git/': Could not resolve host: github.com

eager fulcrum
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That's an issue with your setup

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The VPN is set up not to interfere with your internet traffic at all, only traffic to the THM network goes over the VPN

heavy field
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I have my Kali as VM running on a bridged connection. Works absolutely fine off the VPN

eager fulcrum
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Yep, it's an issue with your setup though

heavy field
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sudo traceroute -d 8.8.8.8
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 10.9.0.1 (10.9.0.1) 23.211 ms 23.009 ms 22.922 ms
2 * * *
3 * * *
4 * * *
5 * * *
6 * * *
7 * * *
8 * * *
9 * * *
10 * * *

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Yep can see it is an issue with my setup....No it is hitting the gateway and not going anywhere

eager fulcrum
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It shouldn't be going via that route, so there's something up with your routing on your VM

heavy field
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I have simply used the VPN config file from the THM site

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So missing something here

eager fulcrum
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the VPN config only routes traffic for the VPN

heavy field
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Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 10.9.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 50 0 0 tun0
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 100 0 0 eth0
10.9.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 50 0 0 tun0
10.10.0.0 10.9.0.1 255.255.0.0 UG 50 0 0 tun0
54.76.30.11 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.255 UGH 100 0 0 eth0
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 100 0 0 eth0
192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 100 0 0 eth0

eager fulcrum
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That first route is wrong

heavy field
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Ah so looks like for some reason when the VPN is up the default route is is the preferred path

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Yeah get that. But I haven't set any routes. Simply used the VPN config file

calm stone
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Hi, I’m having trouble receiving my verification email from tryhackme. I checked spam, regular inbox, everything. Nothing came. I did the resend option countless times and nothing still came. Dark even told me to make sure my email was inputed correctly and I made sure of that. If anyone can help, it’ll be much appreciated!

eager fulcrum
calm stone
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Yea I did that yesterday afternoon so still waiting on their reply. Just wanted to know if anyone could help in discord, thnks

heavy field
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That first route is wrong
@eager fulcrum deleted the route and all good
sudo route delete -net 0.0.0.0 gw 10.9.0.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev tun0
just not sure why this route would have been created. But thanks for the assist Ninja

rich frost
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Hi guys, in RP: Webscanning, part 3, i should start OWASP-ZAP. But it seems this is not by default installed on the KALI machine?

barren birch
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@rich frost Not yet, but it is on the replacement

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sudo apt install zaproxy should do it

rich frost
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Cheers, thanks 🙂

minor parcel
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hello all. im having an issue connecting to the welcome 'test machine'. THM says im connected to the VPN (OpenVPN on Ubuntu 20.04). After deploying the machine and waiting upwards of 10 minutes, it's not pingable and i get no website.

eager fulcrum
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Then you're not connected

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!multivpn

sharp bisonBOT
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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>

arctic hull
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this is sooo frustrating

eager fulcrum
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@deep trellis It's happening again

deep trellis
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Thats actually a new error hm

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Taking too long to respond?

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this is sooo frustrating
@arctic hull Whats your username?

minor parcel
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right. i had two running, killall'd them. when i sudo openvpn <conf.ovpn> , there are two openvpn tasks that are running:

eager fulcrum
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That's fine

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Those two are correct

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There's one instance of sudo

arctic hull
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MartianManhunter

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I'm probably redo-ing this box like the 10th time

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I've now switched off my Mcafee VPN

eager fulcrum
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Good

arctic hull
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didn't realise it was still on...

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urgh

minor parcel
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re-deployed the weclome machine, waited a few minutes for it to boot up. still not able to access the VM. this seems to be an external issue actually.. does the IP scheme of my local network matter at all?

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sorry, should clarify i can't ping the welcome machine either.

eager fulcrum
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Show us the output in your terminal for the VPN

minor parcel
eager fulcrum
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Welp that looks connected

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Regen your config and try again

nimble trail
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nvm me

heavy field
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@eager fulcrum I have just disconnected my VPN and reconnected and checked the routes, and the default route is back again....

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 10.9.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 50 0 0 tun0

eager fulcrum
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That's not something the VPN configs do

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That VPN server, eu regular 2 right?

heavy field
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Which is really weird. Is it to do with me starting the VPN through network manager rather than through the shell command?

This IP - 54.76.30.11

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not sure which one that is pointing to

eager fulcrum
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Yeah don't use network manager

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I have no idea what that is, I'm guessing public IP?

heavy field
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Ah ok

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Yeah don't use network manager
@eager fulcrum yeah just confirmed it by checking the routes before and after.....Weird how network manager automatically adds the routes...Thanks mate.

minor parcel
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new config file generated in use. redeployed the machine: no go on the connection.

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im going to try a couple things externally. thanks for the help so far, i'll report back one way or the other

nimble trail
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Yeah don't use network manager
Network Mangler. FTFY

naive dust
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hi everyone, i never received the verification mail ¿any ideas of what to do? i've checked spam and my inbox, i also resended the code a couple times

nimble trail
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Hi

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Is there some update?

wild steppe
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I'm having some issues with a Kali vm I built on a laptop. I'm running OpenVPN from the VM itself, logged into tryhackme from that VM, access shows connected and rooms are pingable. But nmap scans are failing in more than one room and I know from the first step of the writeups that I am doing the right scan. Any ideas?

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I know it's just the VM I made because if I launch the Kali vm from THM it works fine, but I don't see networking-wise what I've done wrong, especially since the access page says I'm connected and pings are successful.

minor parcel
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if my internal ip address is 10.2.x.x, and the Welcome Test machine is 10.10.x.x, is that going to cause me not to be able to ping or access the deployed machine(s)?

zealous yoke
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Nope, all is well (:

minor parcel
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what about ip routes? should 10.10.0.0/16 be routed to my default gateway?
10.10.0.0/16 via 10.2.0.1 dev enp6s0 metric 1000

zealous yoke
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That looks right yes

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10.2.0.1 will be the vpn gateway

minor parcel
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nvm this

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i connected to the EURegular1 and it works

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i think my network and the vpn tunnel network both being 10.2.x.x was causing me the problems

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that's what i get for trying to be different on my network lol

wild steppe
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@zealous yoke @minor parcel any ideas how I can troubleshoot the nmap network issue?

zealous yoke
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What's the error message?

minor parcel
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@wild steppe , i do not. I'm very beginner myself. if i had to guess, it sounds like something with routing between the host and the kali vm

wild steppe
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nmap "host seems down...try blocking ping probes" error

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but they're not rooms blocking ping

eager fulcrum
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Then you're not properly VPN'd

wild steppe
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what could I do to fix it? I can ping the rooms, the THM Access page says I'm ok

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I did sudo openvpn when connecting too

eager fulcrum
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I mean, if you can ping them and nmap ignores it

wild steppe
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yeah the same terminal pings ok so I know the room is up all the way, just nmap fails

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but it's multiple rooms

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I don't know what else to try if the access page says I'm good and ping works

eager fulcrum
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Considering nmap makes the same ICMP echo requests

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!multivpn

sharp bisonBOT
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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>

wild steppe
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ok so I went through that, it was 3 lines with grep on the bottom, I did steps 2-4 and then redid 1 to see and it's 3 lines again

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the lines are: sudo openvpn...

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openvpn

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grep openvpn

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I don't understand the second one without sudo if I'm not running that

eager fulcrum
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Ok

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So

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One is a sudo process

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sudo is a program

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it runs as root

wild steppe
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sure, the multivpn says "more than 1 and not grep"

eager fulcrum
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the other is the openvpn process that the sudo one spawns

wild steppe
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ok

barren birch
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The multivpn really needs updated

eager fulcrum
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That guide was written before Kali switched to non-root user

wild steppe
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haha ok

barren birch
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I have a troubleshooting script here that should be going on the website soon

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Would you like to test?

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Or is it all working now

wild steppe
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yeah!

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no still not working, I am back to where I started before coming on discord today

barren birch
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Ok, let's see if this sheds any light

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inb4 it either doesn't work or gives us nothing

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Download that and run it

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Putting it in the same directory as your config is a good idea

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But not essential

wild steppe
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maybe a dumb question but was it just supposed to be ./thm-troubleshoot from the same directory?

minor parcel
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@barren birch script is beautiful

barren birch
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That copy has a mistake in it...

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Just fixed it now 😆

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Did it work for you?

minor parcel
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however, (and im only saying this becuase it tripped me up) if your THMtunnel internal address and the machines ip address on teh same subnet (10.2.x.x/xx), a warning might be nice

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let me download it again to be sure, but the first version worked for me as well

barren birch
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I've not updated the copy in here

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And yeah, it does not do that. Might look into that check 👍
Thanks

minor parcel
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in that case yes, it worked

wild steppe
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@barren birch what am I doing to run that script when it's in the same directory as ovpn

barren birch
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Huh?

minor parcel
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@barren birch sure thing 😄

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@wild steppe sudo ./thm-troubleshoot

wild steppe
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that's what I thought but it gave an error

minor parcel
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did you make it executable?

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chmod +x thm-troubleshoot

wild steppe
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oh duh, no

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haha

barren birch
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Heh, that helps 😁

minor parcel
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just a tad XD

wild steppe
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so this is weird, it ran and everything was good but the "your THM address" is blank

barren birch
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Can you screenshot?

wild steppe
barren birch
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Now that's an interesting one

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Can you screenshot the results of ip a show tun0 for me?

wild steppe
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that matches the THM access page

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do you still wanna see it?

barren birch
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Please

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Because it indicates my regex has messed up

wild steppe
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can I just paste it or do you really want a screenshot?

minor parcel
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i think the it's actually showing your local address, not the thm address.

barren birch
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That should just be showing your THM IP @wild steppe, so screenshot, if you don't mind?

wild steppe
minor parcel
barren birch
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Ok, 11 is in there, why on earth is it not showing

minor parcel
barren birch
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Can you do ip a | grep -oE "10\.[2|4|8|9|11]\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3} @wild steppe?

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@minor parcel Right, that is an easy fix

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Other than there being a duplicate range

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But I shall do some testing for that in a later version

wild steppe
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I'm not sure it's doing anything unless it's slow. I just have a > after hitting enter

barren birch
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That's because I copied it wrong

minor parcel
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@wild steppe add a " to the end

barren birch
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That ^^

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Sorry, copy and paste mishap

wild steppe
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ok done, is it supposed to show something?

minor parcel
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it should show one or more ip address

barren birch
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@wild steppe It is, which means regex is being stupid

wild steppe
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it didn't show anything, just returned to my user prompt

barren birch
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ip a | grep -oE "10\.[2|4|8|9|'11']\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}"

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Try that one?

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Really shouldn't be making a difference

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But it is

wild steppe
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no same thing

minor parcel
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@barren birch that worked

wild steppe
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ifconfig shows what I'm guessing is the VM's IP, the loopback, and the tunnel

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and the tunnel matches THM access page

minor parcel
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@wild steppe does just 'ip a ' work?

barren birch
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Yeah, it's the regex @wild steppe

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For some reason it's not liking matching more than one character

wild steppe
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is that related to why it appears that I'm connected but nmap doesn't see anything?

barren birch
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No, it's just the display

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The actual connection will be working fine

wild steppe
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yeah I still don't understand why I could ping but that doesn't work

barren birch
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Hm, are you connected by the way?

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The script indicates that you are

wild steppe
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yeah, still connected

barren birch
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Oh goddamnit

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Sorted it

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ip a | grep -oE "10\.(2|4|8|9|11)\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}

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Try that for me?

minor parcel
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  • with a " at the end
wild steppe
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with an endquote 😛

barren birch
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Yes...

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With a closing quote... 😅

wild steppe
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yeah that works

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matches THM

minor parcel
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ah, i see the difference in the regex now. it looked the same at first

barren birch
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Yeah, I got the wrong brackets for it 😆
This is why you don't script at 0300 kids

wild steppe
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I dunno if this matters but when I switched back to the vpn tab it had a bunch of decrypt packet errors

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haha

barren birch
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Now, interestingly, I am very surprised that it let you past the range check

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Oh, I see what happened there

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@wild steppe do us one last favour and try that one?

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(Then screenshot that VPN tab for me and I'll diagnose it myself 😆)

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Oooh

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Run that script and show me what happens

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Then do sudo killall openvpn

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And run the script again

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I reckon I know what's going on here

wild steppe
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blank again on first run

barren birch
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How on earth does that happen

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Ok, kill the vpn and try it again?

wild steppe
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yeah on that step, it says try to connect y/n?

barren birch
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Tell it yes

wild steppe
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tun0 does not exist before that

barren birch
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And yeah, that happened because I forgot to fix the display at the end 🙄
Did the rest of them

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And yeah, just tell it to set it up itself

#

That means that it will also be checking for certificate errors

#

It sounds like your certificate has errors

wild steppe
#

haha everything is good again but blank ip

barren birch
#

Yeah, blank IP will now be fixed on my local copy

wild steppe
#

should I regenerate?

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oh ok

barren birch
#

I cannot type tonight

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Ok, can you do sudo killall openvpn again, then start the VPN manually and show me the errors?

wild steppe
#

yes

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well the manual vpn start is fine, it as after awhile with running the scripts that it started to give errors

#

I'm reconnected, run the script again? nmap again?

barren birch
#

That is really odd. Yeah, try nmap again

#

What box are you scanning?

wild steppe
#

rp: ps empire

barren birch
#

Now, does blue respond to pings...

#

There's the question

#

Can you ping the box?

wild steppe
#

yeah I can ping it again

barren birch
#

Can you nmap it?

wild steppe
#

I didn't let the nmap finish but it was starting to time out

barren birch
#

Ok, anything in the logs?

wild steppe
#

nmap 10.10.111.5 -A -T4 --script vuln
nmap 10.10.box.ip -A -T4 --script vuln

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ha that's weird

barren birch
#

Oof, that could take a while anyway

#

Try nmap -Pn -vv 10.10.111.5

wild steppe
#

yeah that works

barren birch
#

Sounds like the command might have been an issue

wild steppe
#

why would vuln script literally think the box isn't pingable?

barren birch
#

The box is Windows

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Blue should respond to ICMP

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I don't know if Dark turned off the firewall, or just changed stuff on it

wild steppe
#

I took that from a writeup when I couldn't get it to work and it still failed

barren birch
#

But Windows doesn't do nicely with being pinged, generally speaking

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Try your command, but add -Pn?

wild steppe
#

I think I did and got the same but let me do it again

barren birch
#

That working?

wild steppe
#

yeah, retransmission cap hit

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it's about to timeout

barren birch
#

It sounds vaguely like your connection isn't liking the intensity of that scan

#

Anything in the OVPN log?

wild steppe
#

so you pointed out something I should have realized..when I said it did this with two rooms, I mean this one and Blue forgetting it's the same vm

barren birch
#

Haha

wild steppe
#

yeah there's a bunch of mute reply warning stuff in the ovpn log

barren birch
#

Can you screenshot it?

wild steppe
#

yeah

barren birch
#

There was an error going around that was fixed by adjusting the transmission time

wild steppe
barren birch
#

@deep trellis if you get a sec, mind checking that? It's a new one to me

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Either way, it's working if you don't do anything like a -T4 scan @wild steppe?

wild steppe
#

let me take that out and just try the vuln script

barren birch
#

👍

wild steppe
#

well...

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thanks for your time today haha

barren birch
#

Did that work? 😁

wild steppe
#

yes lol

barren birch
#

Haha, fair enough

wild steppe
#

I took out the t4

barren birch
#

Well, gave me a chance to give that script a dry run

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So ta for that 😁

wild steppe
#

that script is cool though,let me know if you need a guinea pig again

barren birch
#

Hehe, thanks

wild steppe
#

I've gotta logout, see you guys...

south canyon
#

i have a problem connecting via openvpn

zealous yoke
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How so?

#

What's wrong? We need more detail

south canyon
#

getting to it 😉

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i did sudo openvpn name.ovpn

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and i see a tun0 in my ifconfig

#

inet is the same as destination though

#

and it wont let me get to my machines

eager fulcrum
#

Get to your machines? What do you mean?

#

It's not that type of VPN

#

It doesn't change your IP address, it doesn't anonymise at all.

south canyon
#

ok

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but when it try to go to the machines website (10.10.xxx.xxx) it will not let me get through

eager fulcrum
#

Are you sure it's running a website?

south canyon
#

ok got it had to close browser 1st

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thank you 🙂

#

Will there be new ways to pay subscribtions? Like ideal or molly?

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wait nvm this is not for tech support

barren birch
#

Uh... what?

#

Localhost is whatever computer you're using at the time

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Yes, you could do that, in a variety of different ways

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Not really THM related though

eager fulcrum
#

Nope.

barren birch
#

^^

brisk musk
#

Oh sorry my bad

barren birch
#

But yeah, the server is TryHackMe related 🙂

zenith bear
#

Hey guys, I'm very new to Linux and pentesting. Just started the basic linux tutorial room and im trying to ssh into my VM as per the tutorial however whenever i try to connect through Putty om having a connection error 'connection timed out' im following the exact instructions but it just doesn't want to cooperate. Any ideas?

barren birch
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You connected to the VPN @zenith bear?

zenith bear
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Apparently i wasn't! Thanks mate, i think i musn't have connected properly.

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All good now.

narrow charm
#

Hello there. Shodan.jo room task 4 question number 2 needs to be updated. Am I right or I’m missing something?

normal garden
sharp bear
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@narrow charm yes

narrow charm
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Thank you

sharp bear
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@normal garden I dont believe that you can change that you might be able to by changing where your vpn is but it might also be that it can only spawn in the UK

eager fulcrum
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@normal garden Coming soon™️

naive dust
#

@naive dust What is the issue you're having?

naive dust
#

@naive dust Please do not DM me - if you require assistance I'm more than happy to assist you within this room.

manic sinew
#

Hello, anyone able to help me out?

celest sapphire
#

Don't ask to ask, just ask the question

manic sinew
#

yes sir

radiant jasper
#

hello im trying to scan a machine in the room basic pentesting and nmap is saying that the host is down I try to ping the Ip and I dont get any response, and yes im connected to vpn.

celest sapphire
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@radiant jasper not all machines respond to pings, try scanning with the -Pn flag to skip ping check in nmap

lilac ocean
#

hello im trying to scan a machine in the room basic pentesting and nmap is saying that the host is down I try to ping the Ip and I dont get any response, and yes im connected to vpn.
@radiant jasper When it says the host is down it also suggests to use -Pn flag just in case??

celest sapphire
#

Naughty, I just responded to this... you're doing it again

lilac ocean
#

I am slow at typing

naive dust
#

haha

#

I was going to comment too.

manic sinew
#

anyways, I've been having some weird problems when doing stuff on the labs. I'm using my own Kali Machine, fresh install.
While working on Steel Mountain there was absolutely no way the intended Metasploit exploit would work. I did check if everything was ok (I'm not total beginner just in case), I followed walkthroughs, I followed livestream from @grave leaf, but nothing seems to work, weird, even when it's supposed to since my install is fresh and all the steps are recreated the same way. Then I tried manual exploitation but I would always not be able to do certain steps on the machine like running malicious file, again, weird things. I moved on and now I'm on Jenkins but there is also weird stuff going on and at this point I'm not convinced that the issue is on my side. Nmap scan will not return results, even using flag -Pn. I also tried different flags but nothing comes back. I also tried going straight to the first intended ip:port on the browser but there's no answer. Some stuff works but a lot of them doesn't. When I check writeups to certify myself I'm not doing something totally weird, I'm not.
My machine doesn't not seem to be the problem since I tried similar stuff to boxes on HTB and there's no problem.
My guess is that maybe there's something related to the connection pack I was assigned (I did download new one), restarting machine does not work.
Any idea on what to do next?

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I do remember experiencing some troubles on past machines but now I do not remember exactly what

#

Maybe the IP that I'm assigned (always the same one so far, even with new connection pack) fell into some kind of filtering or something, is that possible?

random ravine
#

Similar to @random ravine 's question earlier, anyone know how to paste a link into tryhackme's browser - based kali machine?
@mint gust solved, you have to enable clipboard if you are using chrom

celest sapphire
#

@manic sinew to me that looks like a connection issue. Did you see anything weird in the openvpn log?

manic sinew
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hm, I did not dig to deep into it, I close the connection and open again and appears connected, maybe I can paste it somewhere to get some help? I'm not too expert on these issues. First I'll see if I find something weird by myself

celest sapphire
#

you should be able to paste it here, it it's too long it should automatically upload it as a file

manic sinew
#

alright so, on my big message I talked about 2 machines, Steel Mountain and "Jenkins" (actually, Alfred). Nmap -Pn wasn't showing results. I tried to restart the connection with THM, restart my machine and Alfred but nothing. Now for whatever reason it is detecting the ports. I don't see nothing weird on the openvpn log but I'll paste it here.

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about Steel Mountain, I deployed it to try to see if the issue there was fixed but not

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of course now we get to a point where the issue could be the connection or something that I'm doing wrong to pwn the machine, and I don't want to spoil, but from my perspective there's nothing wrong on my side. Showing the steps that I'm following to "pwn" the machine could maybe point out the error

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The Mayor (also mentor) did try to help me the other day during his livestream and before but we couldn't find the issue

#

it's basic exploitation but it just doesn't work

lilac ocean
#

No need to censor local ip

manic sinew
#

can't somebody start poking my machine around? what if I have a vulnerable service open and my machine is on bridge mode?

celest sapphire
#

VPN is on the VM right?

manic sinew
#

yes

celest sapphire
#

connects fine from what I see

distant acorn
#

room/jokerctf is broken

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please fix

celest sapphire
#

@distant acorn how is it broken??

manic sinew
#

@celest sapphire any idea? It's a bit frustrating to spend hours and have the feeling that the fault is on the other side

naive dust
#

I cant connect vpn

distant acorn
#

lxd is crashing

zealous yoke
#

How so @naive dust

distant acorn
#

tried restart the box, still crashing

zealous yoke
#

lxd for that room is known to be buggy

#

You’ll have keep redeploying and hope to get lucky

distant acorn
#

i tried redeploy 3 times, still no luck

zealous yoke
#

Please respect Rule 1 @naive dust. We can help you here if you get a bit more detail

naive dust
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@zealous yoke I cant connect to OpenVPN its showing error

zealous yoke
#

What’s the error?

naive dust
#

disconnection. and im using Linux machine

zealous yoke
#

!multivpn

sharp bisonBOT
#
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>

zealous yoke
#

Try that

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I’d recommend sudo killall openvpn and connecting in one terminal only to make sure

manic sinew
#

Hey @zealous yoke, is there a way to receive another ip? I would like to grey out this option from the source of my problem

naive dust
#

@zealous yoke thks let me try

celest sapphire
#

@manic sinew iirc you get a different IP after regenerating the config

manic sinew
#

hm, I did regenerate and got the same one, that's why I was asking. I'll try once more

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regenerate button keeps giving me the same one always

celest sapphire
#

maybe it was switching the VPN servers that gave different IPs

manic sinew
#

yes I did that, got new IP but problems still here

celest sapphire
#

huh, that is really weird

#

mind passing the output of ip a?

manic sinew
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6: tun0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN group default qlen 100
link/none
inet 10.9.33.173/16 brd 10.9.255.255 scope global tun0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::6dc2:b699:5c67:ab5/64 scope link stable-privacy
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

celest sapphire
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full output if possible

manic sinew
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1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:0c:29:70:0f:dd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.78.207/24 brd 192.168.78.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute eth0
valid_lft 1317sec preferred_lft 1317sec
inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fe70:fdd/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
6: tun0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN group default qlen 100
link/none
inet 10.9.33.173/16 brd 10.9.255.255 scope global tun0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::6dc2:b699:5c67:ab5/64 scope link stable-privacy
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

celest sapphire
#

hmm, so it's not colliding with the other network

manic sinew
#

I'm using nordvpn on my main machine, not sure if could be

eager fulcrum
#

Don't do that

#

It tends to break stuff

celest sapphire
#

might be that

manic sinew
#

at this point what I'm using to "check" if things are working or not is launching the intended exploit from msf in Steel Mountain

naive dust
#

guyz i cant to cant connect to vpn

eager fulcrum
#

You're going to need to be a lot less vague than that

manic sinew
#

can't believe it worked

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it was the damn vpn

eager fulcrum
naive dust
#

why it comes like this, whn i try to connect with vpn

eager fulcrum
#

You needed to start with that

#

Don't make us keep asking for badic information

#

Are you in Egypt?

naive dust
#

indain

eager fulcrum
#

Check your system time and your network connectivity.

naive dust
#

@eager fulcrum let me try

random light
#

Hi,

#

I keep getting theWARNING: Failed to daemonise. This is quite common and not fatal. Connection timed out (110) error on the vulnversity room and i cant seem to fix it

#

plesae help

eager fulcrum
#

That means you're not listening correctly

#

Or you didn't set the settings right in the shell

random light
#

i put it on port 443

#

and just do nc -lnvp 443

#

so

eager fulcrum
#

I mentioned 2 things

#

And you've partially covered the first.

random light
#

uh, ive changed anything in the reverse shell code apart from local ip and port

#

i havent

eager fulcrum
#

Local IP set to your VPN IP?

random light
#

i use in browser

#

cos my vm is weird

eager fulcrum
#

Set to the 10.10 address of the kali browser machine?

random light
#

oh

#

i used the local

#

ill try it

eager fulcrum
#

The local is 10.10

random light
#

oh i did the one that said 173. whatever

coral moat
#

okay! It's again happening with me LIVE!

eager fulcrum
#

Site is up

#

If you were IP banned, there would be a good reason. And you'd be told

#

Issue is on your end

#

Not tryhackme's

random light
#

sry to bother u but its still not wokring

#

working

coral moat
#

ohh okay!

❤️ I'll check!

random light
#

sry ninja but its not working

#

i feel rly bad pestering u

eager fulcrum
#

I can't tell what you're doing wrong because I can't see what you're doing

random light
#

ah ig

eager fulcrum
#

IP needs to be the 10.10 IP of the kali machine

random light
#

yup ive done that

eager fulcrum
#

Not of the machine you're attacking

random light
#

wait

#

how to i check the 10.10 of the kali machine

eager fulcrum
#

ip a s

random light
#

i feel so dumb lmao

#

thanks

#

❤️

eager fulcrum
#

Working?

copper mist
#

VPN keeps dying again - when performing scans

eager fulcrum
#

Checked multivpn?

random light
#

leme check

copper mist
#

Yeah, only 1 instance running

eager fulcrum
#

Only connected from on device too?

#

Reconnected?

copper mist
#

Happend a few weeks ago, exactly the same thing, dies -> reconnects -> scan -> die

eager fulcrum
#

Weird. I'm out of ideas.

random light
#

hey ninja

#

i put the reverse shell code im using in a pastebin

#

but sadly it still dont work

eager fulcrum
#

I don't know all the information here, I can't help much more

random light
#

oh

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the known issues say thats a thing

#

so are there any communities that'd know

eager fulcrum
#

Known issues for what, vulnversity?

random light
#

yup

eager fulcrum
#

Specifically says what?

random light
#

it just says the error message im getting

#

cos u know u can click options then known issues

#

its in there

#

last one

eager fulcrum
#

Yeah there's no detail there and that error tends to be user error

#

It's probably from when anyone could add a known issue

random light
#

ooki

#

wait omg

#

i got it working

#

tysm ninja!

#

❤️

#

i appreciate the help

naive dust
#

I am trying TryHackMe for the first time. However, when I connect using Openvpn to the Simple CTF and then click on Deploy, although it says I have an active machine, no virtual machine window appears for me to complete the task in. What am I doing wrong?

barren birch
#

@naive dust For the vast majority of machines on the site you don't get in browser access

#

You're given an IP address and told to hack your way in

#

That's the case for Simple CTF

naive dust
#

OK, that's helpful, thankyou. And for your swift response!

ember juniper
#

VMware 15.5.6 is out, sorts the CAPS LOCK issue, incase anyone else had that issue

zealous yoke
#

Oh boy did I

tawdry orbit
#

They might as well rename 15.5.5 to 15.5.CAPS_LOCKED

ember juniper
#

+1

zenith urchin
#

Hey Guys, just trying to complete the rpburpsuite room but I can't get the answer right for task13 #1 and I have tried everything. Can anyone help if they have got the answer and where abouts it may be hiding please 🙂

#

No stress, I found the answer thanks

lilac ocean
#

@zenith urchin Good for you and also if you have any questions in future you can ask in #room-help 🙂

zenith urchin
#

Thanks

cursive lagoon
#

Can anyone tell me how to configure
my router for openvpn>/??

eager fulcrum
#

@cursive lagoon As we said, you don't configure your router at all

cursive lagoon
#

then how do i fix it?

eager fulcrum
#

Fix what?

#

We can't help you if you don't tell us what's wrong

cursive lagoon
#

openvpn works one network and doesnt work on another

eager fulcrum
#

Not a tryhackme issue

pearl hill
#

hey there, does the tryhackme network is sometimes overloaded / unstable ? preventing some revers shell success ?

cursive lagoon
#

then i m not geting any support?

eager fulcrum
#

@cursive lagoon You're not getting support for a problem that you have a solution to. Use the other network.

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@pearl hill Nope.

pearl hill
#

@eager fulcrum thanks

eager fulcrum
#

If you're not getting a reverse shell, you're either not connected properly, doing something wrong, or not running the VPN directly on kali.

cursive lagoon
#

the other one is too slow and not my own

pearl hill
#

I suppose the error is indeed on my side @eager fulcrum thanks for the info 😉

cursive lagoon
#

@eager fulcrum ?

eager fulcrum
#

@cursive lagoon Quite clearly that wasn't directed at you, seeing as it doesn't relate at all to what we were discussing

cursive lagoon
#

??

eager fulcrum
#

You don't have to do any setup on your router to allow openvpn

#

Do you have a specific question to answer?

#

Or would you like to show us what's not working, with screenshots and enough information that we can try to help you?

cursive lagoon
#

here is the output of openvpn username.ovpn:
Wed Jun 10 23:36:02 2020 OpenVPN 2.4.9 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on Apr 21 2020
Wed Jun 10 23:36:02 2020 library versions: OpenSSL 1.1.1g 21 Apr 2020, LZO 2.10
Wed Jun 10 23:36:02 2020 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 512 bit message hash 'SHA512' for HMAC authentication
Wed Jun 10 23:36:02 2020 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 512 bit message hash 'SHA512' for HMAC authentication
Wed Jun 10 23:36:02 2020 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]3.104.196.208:1194
Wed Jun 10 23:36:02 2020 Socket Buffers: R=[212992->212992] S=[212992->212992]
Wed Jun 10 23:36:02 2020 UDP link local: (not bound)
Wed Jun 10 23:36:02 2020 UDP link remote: [AF_INET]3.104.196.208:1194

eager fulcrum
#

There are no problems there.

cursive lagoon
#

there is moree

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w8

eager fulcrum
#

Then show us more.

#

Screenshot

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The whole thing

cursive lagoon
#

here

eager fulcrum
#

Check your system time, it needs to be accurate

#

If you're in Egypt, it won't work at all

cursive lagoon
#

i am from b

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bd*

eager fulcrum
#

??

cursive lagoon
#

my time is accurate

#

it works on another network..

eager fulcrum
#

Ok, then the issue is with your network

#

Outside of what we can really help you with

cursive lagoon
#

should my time be gmt 0?

eager fulcrum
#

Your system time should be UTC, and then whatever offset you need

cursive lagoon
#

oh ok

#

yha

#

thanks for ur help

eager fulcrum
#

#general this isn't directly tryhackme related

wheat cove
#

my bad

#

Saw tech support and thought it mean tech overall

sharp bear
#

this is why there are descriptions to the channels

elfin sand
#

Hi guys, im trying to do the rpburpsuite room. im trying to do the sniper attack Task9 #12. Nothing is coming back, and im getting these errors. The room is deployed. Ive got 40mins left on it. Not to sure whats going on

grave leaf
#

Did you turn off url encoding?

elfin sand
#

yeah its turned off

grave leaf
#

Seems like a #room-help question more than tech-support. This is probably an issue with user configuration.

#

What are you trying to run it on? If it's Windows, you may need to modify defender settings.

elfin sand
#

ok cheers.... Im in Kali on VMware

grave leaf
#

Let's move to #room-help and see if we can sort it out. 🙂

tawny cliff
#

so TLS handshake error with openvpn, no way around it?

#

the vpn is blocked in my country

eager fulcrum
#

Wait for TCP VPN or subscribe and use the subscriber kali. Egypt? @tawny cliff

tawny cliff
#

yup

eager fulcrum
#

Those are your options then.

tawny cliff
#

alright, ty

eager fulcrum
#

You could try tunnelling your traffic elsewhere first but VPNs inside VPNs often go wrong

tawny cliff
#

i'd imagine so that's why i haven't tried it

naive dust
surreal yacht
#

@naive dust it wants you to list the number of ports under 1000. So if port 21, 22, and 8080 and open, the answer is 2

naive dust
#

i was scan in nmap and there is 23 53 80 81 139 445 @surreal yacht

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under 1000

surreal yacht
#

@naive dust I think your question is better suited for community-help or community-hints depending on what you're looking for

arctic kettle
#

hey 🙂 here, at "learn Linux" room, tesk 11 they ask me to execute the binary file "shiba1", whare I can find it? thanks

zealous yoke
#

#room-help but shiba1 should be in the home directory of shba1 iirc

arctic kettle
#

Cant find this directory, i will ask there, thanks

spark lodge
#

i tried setting up the openVPN for Linux...i did everything that was said but after i 'apt-installed' the directory was not there

#

it just...did not exist

#

any help regarding this? if yes, please ping me along with the answer

zealous yoke
#

You just need to sudo apt update && sudo apt install openvpn

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then use the openvpn command with the path to your config file @spark lodge

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!vpn

sharp bisonBOT
spark lodge
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i see

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now..what is the default path for the config file?

zealous yoke
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It'll be wherever you downloaded the config file too

spark lodge
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i see

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thanks for the help..

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umm..i did that

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still nothing

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@zealous yoke

barren birch
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@spark lodge If you downloaded the config it'll usually be in your Downloads folder by default

spark lodge
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its empty...

barren birch
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cd ~/Downloads && ls *.ovpn

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If it's not there

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Try downloading it again, and check where you're saving it..

spark lodge
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how do u download it?

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apt install openvpn?

barren birch
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Your config file

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Not the OVPN client

spark lodge
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oh i didnt get it

barren birch
spark lodge
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thanks ill get it

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what should i do after getting it?

barren birch
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sudo openvpn ~/Downloads/*.ovpn

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Then open a new terminal and use it

spark lodge
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ok

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what bout the client?

barren birch
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What client?

spark lodge
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apt install openvpn

barren birch
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sudo apt update && sudo apt install openvpn -y && sudo openvpn ~/Downloads/*.ovpn

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Use that instead, just to be safe

spark lodge
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ok thanks a lot

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and after that...i can start doing the room?

barren birch
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Mhm

spark lodge
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through any browser?

barren birch
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Depends on the room

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If it's got a webserver, yes

spark lodge
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its a room that has got machine IP

barren birch
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That doesn't mean it has a webserver

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Which room?

spark lodge
barren birch
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It has a webserver, but you'd be better starting with tutorials

spark lodge
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i see

barren birch
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Learn Linux, being a good bet from the sounds of it

spark lodge
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any begineer suggestions?

spark lodge
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wow thanks

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i havent done the 'welcome' room yet XD

barren birch
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It would certainly help with the VPN

spark lodge
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yep

valid fossil
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is the TCP openvpn out yet?

zealous yoke
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Not yet @valid fossil I'm afraid

valid fossil
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ok

zealous yoke
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Not a TryHackMe-related issue friend

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Fully serious

split horizon
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Hey boi´´´

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´´´

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Thu Jun 11 14:04:00 2020 UDP link local: (not bound)
Thu Jun 11 14:04:00 2020 UDP link remote: [AF_INET]54.76.30.11:1194
zealous yoke
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That wasn't direct to you dw @valid fossil, there was another whose just left

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That looks right @split horizon

valid fossil
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idk you replied after me last messeging so

split horizon
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does it?

eager fulcrum
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They deleted messages

zealous yoke
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give it a few seconds it sometimes takes a couple of seconds to get past that

valid fossil
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ok

zealous yoke
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It looks like it because messages have been deleted

valid fossil
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yeah mb

split horizon
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cmn is

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its suck for 5 - 10 mins at that now

zealous yoke
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Mhm

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switch vpn server, regen config and try that (:

split horizon
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already done

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also restartet networking etc

zealous yoke
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including switching vpn servers?

split horizon
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yeah

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i was usin europ1 now im on europe #2

zealous yoke
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!multivpn

sharp bisonBOT
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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>

zealous yoke
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use sudo killall openvpn for the 3rd step

valid fossil
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yeah
@split horizon if you are in Egypt, openvpn is currently blocked

split horizon
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no

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i killed all sessions

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and restartet

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seems stuck again

valid fossil
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are you using virtual machine

split horizon
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ill doo a full restart now

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no

eager fulcrum
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Linux or Windows?

split horizon
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kali

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newest version

eager fulcrum
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@barren birch break out the troubleshooting script

split horizon
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ill restart now cya

barren birch
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Uh, gimme a sec. On my phone

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I do not believe that worked.

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Hopefully will be the latest one though.

summer basalt
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Hi, I'm currently working through the Linux Challenges. I've realised there's no sound coming out of the machine at all. Do I have to do this on my own box via OpenSSL so I can move it back to Windows to open the file for flag 32?

native wind
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Download it to your local

eager fulcrum
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@summer basalt There's a large number of ways you can grab a file from the box.

summer basalt
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Thanks 😄

split horizon
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@barren birch should I download youe file

arctic hull
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sorry guys, I don't know if this is the right channel, but how do I change my billing to take place on the last day of the month?

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anyone know?

zealous yoke
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You will have to wait until your current subscription ends and then renew it on the day you want

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You can't specify billing dates - it is 30 days from whenever it's been started 🙂

arctic hull
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will I lose my stats, etc?

zealous yoke
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Nope!

arctic hull
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wow thanks 🙂

zealous yoke
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You just won't have subscriber benefits e.g. if you're in the middle of a sub room you can't complete it

arctic hull
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ok

barren birch
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@split horizon I mean, if you've not sorted the problems then yeah, give it a shot

arctic hull
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good news though

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thanks 🙂

zealous yoke
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any time ^^

arctic hull
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enjoy your evening 🙂

zealous yoke
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and you! Thanks!

manic sinew
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Hello!

Is there any known issue with Hackpark? There are serious timeout kinda problems every time, even restarting the box. My Openvpn shows no errors and I do not have any other VPN on. Sometimes the web server loads automatically and sometimes takes very very long, also the shell ends up dropping

eager fulcrum
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!multivpn

sharp bisonBOT
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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
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Hackpark dies after an hour, but other than that it was stable for me

manic sinew
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all the boxes dies after an hour no?

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also the button to add 1h almost never works

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even adding the extra hour the connection dies

eager fulcrum
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It doesn't work for hackpark

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For every other room, more or less, it works fine

manic sinew
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I had the same on Steel mountain

eager fulcrum
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There's avery very small number of exceptions

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Which tends to be windows boxes

manic sinew
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I see, anyways, I did kill openvpn process, will give a try again

split horizon
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@barren birch [+] Connecting....
openvpn: no process found
[-] Fatal Error: Inline Certificate is invalid

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your script is printing that

barren birch
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openvpn: no process found worries me

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Inline Certificate is invalid

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Means you need to switch server and generate a new config

split horizon
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before i killed all openvpns

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should i run it before?

barren birch
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Can you screenshot the output?

split horizon
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after exec the openvpn before this time?

barren birch
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Whichever

split horizon
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one sec

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-] Script is being run as a low-privileged user
Would you like to run this script with higher privilges automatically (Y/n)? y
[sudo] password for xyz:
[+] Re-running with root permissions
[+] Stable internet connection
[+] OpenVPN is installed
[-] tun0 interface does not exist
Would you like the script to attempt a connection automatically (Y/n)? y
[+] Connecting....
[-] Fatal Error: Inline Certificate is invalid
Please regenerate your VPN config on the access page (https://tryhackme.com/access)
If errors persist, change server then regenerate the config.
If all else fails, ask for further assistance on the TryHackMe Discord server, subreddit or forums.
[-] Exiting

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where from is your script taking my connection file?

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download path?

barren birch
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If it doesn't find the config in the current directory, it'll ask you to tell you where it is

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Meaning they're in the same folder?

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Either way, you have a dud config file

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Regenerate it on a different server and try that

split horizon
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the tun0 is still missing

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do i have to create it myself

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or should openvpn do it

barren birch
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The script will kill the connection that it opens if it detects errors

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Are you using a new config file?

split horizon
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yeah

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[+] Stable internet connection
[+] OpenVPN is installed
[-] tun0 interface does not exist
Would you like the script to attempt a connection automatically (Y/n)? Y
[+] Connecting....
[-] Fatal Error: Inline Certificate is invalid
./thm-troubleshoot: line 8: 2201 Killed openvpn $ovpn < /dev/null &> $ovpnoutput
Please regenerate your VPN config on the access page (https://tryhackme.com/access)
If errors persist, change server then regenerate the config.
If all else fails, ask for further assistance on the TryHackMe Discord server, subreddit or forums.
[-] Exiting
xyz@xyz:~/Downloads$

barren birch
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Then yeah, run the script, and let it create the tun0 for you

split horizon
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its still not working

barren birch
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Same thing?

split horizon
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yeah

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still saying tun0 not there and certificate is not right

barren birch
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Ok, could you please run it manually for me, then take a screenshot of the output

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Preferably an actual screenshot

split horizon
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ok

barren birch
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Sounds like something wrong with the generation. I know there were changes made recently

split horizon
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the thing is i guess my ip is in the screenshot 🙂

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lemme check give me a sec

barren birch
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It should just be your VPN IP

split horizon
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idk what ip it is but not mine

barren birch
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@vapid dawn could I get you to check this quickly?

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That's after regenning and switching servers

split horizon
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of course i restarted pc too // unfortunately i dont have any option to test on other devices

barren birch
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Is there anything missing from that screenshot by the way?

split horizon
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em i guess not lemme check

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just did one from the first line too

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but its basicly all the same

barren birch
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Oh, I'm just trying to figure out where the heck my script was pulling the certificate error from

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Do us a favour and check your system time actually?

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TLS could be that

split horizon
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uff that could be it

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its a wrong time zone

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does that matter 😮

barren birch
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Right then. Do my a favour would you?

split horizon
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i try to change it

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if thats it 🙂

barren birch
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Before you do

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Give that version a shot

split horizon
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yeah lemme try

vapid dawn
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what do you need me to check @barren birch ?

split horizon
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same result

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in new script

barren birch
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Could you check the screenshots from @split horizon @vapid dawn?
VPN problems. Script is currently indicating a certificate error. Wondering if it might be timezone related though

split horizon
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timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Berlin is not working

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im not a linux pro is this the right syntax?

vapid dawn
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you're running it from linux right?

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what geographic location are you in?

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countries light Egypt block OpenVPN

split horizon
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yes

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Europe Germany

vapid dawn
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your current time on your system should be 20:59

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is that right?

split horizon
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it should be yaeh

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but it isnt

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cause i set a wrong time zone on kali install

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i tryed changing it with timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Berlin is not working

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but sadly no results

vapid dawn
barren birch
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Also, @split horizon, mind copying and pasting the stuff you screenshotted in here? I have a little testing of my own to do

split horizon
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should i c&p you the stuff of the screenshots

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xyz@xyz:~$ sudo ntpdate 1.de.pool.ntp.org
11 Jun 23:07:21 ntpdate[4113]: no server suitable for synchronization found

barren birch
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should i c&p you the stuff of the screenshots
@split horizon If you could paste it as text that would be great 😄

split horizon
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one sec

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can i pm you it i dont wanna spam it here

barren birch
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I have a couple of things to check with that script. It's still getting improved

split horizon
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you decide

barren birch
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Yep, sure

split horizon
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if its ok that i post it in here

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its a long text

barren birch
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Either works for me

split horizon
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hu Jun 11 23:09:22 2020 OpenVPN 2.4.9 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on Apr 21 2020
Thu Jun 11 23:09:22 2020 library versions: OpenSSL 1.1.1g 21 Apr 2020, LZO 2.10
Thu Jun 11 23:09:22 2020 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 512 bit message hash 'SHA512' for HMAC authentication
Thu Jun 11 23:09:22 2020 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 512 bit message hash 'SHA512' for HMAC authentication
Thu Jun 11 23:09:22 2020 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]34.253.19.14:1194
Thu Jun 11 23:09:22 2020 Socket Buffers: R=[212992->212992] S=[212992->212992]
Thu Jun 11 23:09:22 2020 UDP link local: (not bound)
Thu Jun 11 23:09:22 2020 UDP link remote: [AF_INET]34.253.19.14:1194

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some later theres a message that he tryes again

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and then prints the same out

barren birch
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Perfect, thanks 🙂

split horizon
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@vapid dawn the site you showed me // after this sudo ntpdate 1.ro.pool.ntp.org or this sudo ntpdate 1.de.pool.ntp.org its prints sudo] password for xyz:
Error resolving its: Name or service not known (-2)
11 Jun 23:12:35 ntpdate[4263]: Can't find host its: Name or service not known (-2)
Error resolving prints: Name or service not known (-2)
11 Jun 23:12:35 ntpdate[4263]: Can't find host prints: Name or service not known (-2)
11 Jun 23:12:44 ntpdate[4263]: no server suitable for synchronization found

vapid dawn
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you have internet connectivity right

split horizon
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yep

barren birch
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(Script would definitely have caught that one 😁)

split horizon
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im also chatting from same laptop soo

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🙂

vapid dawn
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might be your ISP blocking NTP packets

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before all this, did you try regenerate your server?

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** config file?

split horizon
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yeah

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tryed EU 1 EU 2 and VIP 1

vapid dawn
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also are you running it from inside a VM

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or just a host

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?

split horizon
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host

vapid dawn
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and from a home network and not a corporate network?

split horizon
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usually i use the web kali host but there is a box that need packages thats not running on the web one cause its not saving any changes on restarts and stuff

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home network

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firewall is not catching anything too

vapid dawn
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why don't you use the GUI to change your time settings?

split horizon
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not showing time settings in settings

barren birch
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Is this a VM?

split horizon
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no

vapid dawn
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what distro of linux are you using?

split horizon
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kali

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newest version

vapid dawn
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try checking those

barren birch
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Kali is funny with times -- I was messing around with it when I was testing this

split horizon
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the gui is olny showing american time zones

barren birch
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This isn't going to fix it, for the record, but it helps me in terms of improving the script for future use. Could you possibly run this copy once for me? Just to check that it gives the right error for people with your problem 🙂

split horizon
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yeah

barren birch
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Thanks ♥️

split horizon
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im pming you results

cunning thorn
#

Hi all, I'm trying to see a video in the hackpark room but is too slow.

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Do you know how can I solve this ?

mossy wren
#

How can I change my username? The registration process removed special characters, and I'd like to switch to a different username, if possible.

eager fulcrum
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Coming soon

mossy wren
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@eager fulcrum Ok, thank you.

stone roost
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i mean i have wrong time on my kali

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still works just fine

eager fulcrum
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Wrong time zone

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Right time

stone roost
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might be

dull creek
#

hii i have a problem. i can't put my answer in the "RP: tmux" task number 1 and Question number #3 and #5 i follow all the clue hint, the question, the cheatsheet, everything i can find but it still sead my answer is wrong why is that?

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and number #6 just know did the same thing
pls anyone help @everyone

hushed oxide
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asking everyone isn't a good idea @dull creek also... maybe try one of the following rooms: #room-help , #room-hints and if you don't get an answer there try #692465827143876689 . This channel is only for stuff that are of technical kind.. not for questions that are filled in (probs) incorrectly

dull creek
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ok

flint arrow
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@dull creek Try the full name of the key #3

hushed oxide
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@flint arrow he's been redirected to the help channels 😉

flint arrow
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I saw now, apologizes

fossil dome
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Please Guts, how can I get a Discord token?

wintry rock
toxic python
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No

zealous yoke
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It is located on your profile on the THM site in the "Other" tab @fossil dome

fossil dome
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@zealous yoke Thanks 😁

naive dust
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howdy