site-support

[bronze vale]

Do you have the AttackBox running?

[violet meteor]

ah, okay. I will try

[violet meteor]

nope

[bronze vale]

Okay cool let me know how that goes

I do have a solution but just for troubleshooting purposes

[violet meteor]

still the same

[bronze vale]

Not to worry

Go to https://tryhackme.com/dashboard

Right click, press "Inspect" then look for the button named "console" and click it

Then paste this in there:

fetch('/api/vm/running')
  .then(r => r.json())
  .then(vms =>
    vms.forEach(vm =>
      fetch('/api/vm/terminate', {
        method: 'POST',
        body: JSON.stringify({ code: vm.roomId }),
        headers: {
          'csrf-token': csrfToken,
          'Content-Type': 'application/json'
        }
      })
    )
)

[violet meteor]

this console button should be in body section ?

[violet meteor]

a u mean console in dev tools 😄

[bronze vale]

Yup

[violet meteor]

Promise { <state>: "pending" }​ <state>: "fulfilled"​ <value>: undefined (...)

[bronze vale]

Has the room terminated now?

[violet meteor]

nope

[bronze vale]

Press CTRL+F5

[violet meteor]

did couple of times

[bronze vale]

Could you drop an email to support@sharp bison explaining your issue please

[violet meteor]

Can you remotely terminate specific machine ? Or check it status?

[bronze vale]

I cannot no

[violet meteor]

I can but in hour it will expires, so i dont know if it there is a sense, however if you want to address this bug in the future I can describe it 😄

[bronze vale]

It’s just so that we have a record:)

[violet meteor]

sure, then I will report it 🙂

[violet meteor]

Thanks for the help 🙂

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @bronze vale

[violet meteor]

@bronze vale does the email starts with support@ ?

[bronze vale]

!email

[sharp bison]

TryHackMe

Contact us for support, teaching enquires and more!

[e-mail]

From TryHackMe with ❤!

[bronze vale]

:)

How to leave subscriber rooms when you are not a subscriber
Hey there!

We had some changes to the site a couple months back and this affected the functionality:)
In order to leave a subscriber room when you are not a subscriber, you need to do a couple extra steps.

• First, open any room.
  Do not worry! You will not be leaving this room, you just need to join it for the code to work.

• Open devtools
  This depends on your browser but it is usually F12.
  If that does not work, right-click, press "Inspect Element" or "Inspect". This should open something on the page.
  From there, select the tab labelled "Console", you should see some output, ignore it:)

• Paste the following code
  Select the text box within the console Window (it should be next to > ) and paste this:

const targetRoom = 'linuxctf' // Change this to the sub-only roomcode
fetch('/api/room/leave', {
    method: 'POST',
    body: JSON.stringify({
        code: targetRoom,
        _csrf: csrfToken
    }),
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    }
})

Make sure to change the targetRoom variable to the code of the room.
You can get this by heading to hacktivities (https://tryhackme.com/hacktivities), then select "search and find the room you are looking for.
Hover over the room and in the bottom left of your screen, you should be able to see the URL of the room, after the last / should be the code.

For example, linuxctf will look like https://tryhackme.com/room/linuxctf

After that, just hit enter and it should say Promise {<pending>}, this means it is done!
Close the devtools screen and refresh your rooms and you will notice that is has been removed:)

If there are any issues/ errors/ queries, please ping me with an explanation so I can assist you

[smoky harbor]

Where is the appropriate channel to report when you think a challenge room is not spinning up correctly? Is it here, #room-bugs or #room-help ?

[spring elbow]

Hello, i created a Room as challenge for students.
As admin of the room i want to get an extended Chart (all users), Is it possible ?

[stuck niche]

Hello ! I would like, if possible, to unlink my THM account to this Discord account for relink it by another one (@queen cloak). Can I have your help, please ?
It's not urgent, I can wait if you are already busy ! I can wait tommorow :)
And, sorry James to brother you in #quiet-conversation

[naive dust]

Hey guys, I suddenly can't connect to a target machine

Openvpn is running on THM

I am using Openvpn via CLI

it's up and running but still cant browse to my target ip

Anyone that please could help me with this

[plush bay]

proxying with burp???

[naive dust]

Nah it's off

[naive dust]

Can you visit 10.10.10.10 and see your IP at the bottom?

It keeps loading as well

[plush bay]

did you disable the burp proxy in foxy proxy and not just the burp client???

[naive dust]

Havent touched burp today at all

Yes disabled

[naive dust]

ip a | grep tun
How many tun interfaces do you have?

only tun0

MTU of it?

sudo ip link set dev tun0 mtu 1200

i did execute this command

Still tho

[bronze vale]

@naive dust type in your terminal curl 10.10.10.10/whoami is there any output?

[naive dust]

Yes my tun0 ip

[bronze vale]

What room are you doing?

[naive dust]

Pickle Rick

[bronze vale]

What isn't working?

[naive dust]

just trying to connect to random ones

the target machine ip's

it keeps loading

[bronze vale]

Are you using http or https?

[naive dust]

http

[bronze vale]

Have you performed an nmap scan on the room?

Head to your browser and paste 10.10.84.250 into it, does it show your tun0 IP address?

[naive dust]

stuck loading as well

and yes I can ping my targ machine

[bronze vale]

Send a screenshot of your OpenVPN output log pls

Is that the whole output?

[naive dust]

Yeah

No sorry

there's a lil more up top

You need to see it as well?

[bronze vale]

Not that's alright

Can you screenshot your whole browser window please

[naive dust]

FoxyProxy is off if you're wondering

[bronze vale]

Normal webpages load, correct?

[naive dust]

yep

[bronze vale]

Are you using a Virtual Machine?

[naive dust]

No

[bronze vale]

What operating system are you using?

[naive dust]

tried restarting numerous times as well

Windows

[bronze vale]

Eeek!

Are you running OpenVPN in CMD?

[naive dust]

yeah

running on kali

[bronze vale]

What

I'm so confused

WSL?

[naive dust]

No kali

[bronze vale]

How is it Kali if you're on Windows?

[naive dust]

Downloaded from the Windows Store thing

[bronze vale]

That's a crappy VM lmao

[naive dust]

fuck me

[bronze vale]

Yeah, don't use that.

[naive dust]

that may be it?

[bronze vale]

The reason why you can't connect to the room is because Kali is connected but not your Windows machine

[naive dust]

It worked yesterday

[bronze vale]

A virtual machine is separate to your host so it's routing your Kali instance to our servers but not your Windows machine

I'm guessing that Kali is commandline only?

[naive dust]

Yeah that's right

[bronze vale]

If you type curl and the IP address of the target machine, it will return the body of the webpage

Problem is that you can't see the webpage itself so it will make it hard to exploit

I'd recommend using VMware or VBox with actual Kali Linux or just using Windows.

If you're using Windows you need to run OpenVPN directly on Windows (make sure you're only running it in one place so not on Windows and Kali)

Or you can use the AttackBox

[naive dust]

It's giving me too many problems, Ig I'll switch to VM

Thanks for the help !

[bronze vale]

Not a problem:)

[dense mirage]

Hello! Not sure if I should post this here or in #general, but how would I go about getting the OSCP tag? 🙂 I am certified in OffSec's Discord. Thank you!

[stable flare]

Is there a student discount? I am using my edu email but its not giving it to me? thx in advance for the help

[crystal marlin]

!docs student

[sharp bison]

TryHackMe

Redeem your student discount!

https://help.tryhackme.com/billing/student-discount

From TryHackMe with ❤!

[crystal marlin]

I think you have to reach out to a mod for that discord role

[stable flare]

Ty

[crystal marlin]

Are you using your own machine or the attackbox?

And you downloaded the openvpn config file for throwback or you using the regular config file ?

I have not done throwback, but I highly guess there is. So go to the access page, to the network tab and choose the config file for that network. https://tryhackme.com/access

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @crystal marlin

[arctic fiber]

Hi Guys,

Doubt please..

Has try hackme announced winners of advent of cyber3??

[keen dew]

@arctic fiber Yes indeed they have.

[arctic fiber]

Can you help me with list of winners details plz

If you handy any direct URL to refer

I don't see in their portal

[keen dew]

@arctic fiber It's in the #announcements channel

[tepid flume]

Why i haven't got my badge yet?

I completed it

Got the certificate but not badge?

[outer zinc]

I lost my streak because of a time zone issue. really bummed me out. is there anything I can do?

[feral dock]

Try emailing [e-mail] with your streak issue usually they restore it. @outer zinc

[outer zinc]

thanks!

[stray gorge]

hey guys i wanted to ask which os is better kali or ubuntu (for game modding and programing etc)

and can i run them on V.box with these specs

[glad lark]

Im trying to connect to thm openvpn server but it fails to connect with error 'UDP link local: (not bound)'

can someone help me please

[naive dust]

https://www.kali.org/docs/introduction/should-i-use-kali-linux/

[short depot]

what could be the cause here
p.s. I can ping the machine.

[glossy hull]

@glad lark sounds like a networking issue, have you got the latest openvpn version? also might be worth getting a new openvpn config file

[short depot]

AOC 3 task 7 if that's relevant

[glad lark]

I have tried EU, India. both throw same error.

[short depot]

fixed by using a diff openvpn file

[naive dust]

Hello, i'm trying to change my username in THM and i sent an email to [e-mail] but nothing happens, any help?

[naive dust]

It can take some time from my experience.
Here is the link again on how to email them. :)
#site-support message

Thx.

[naive dust]

Hello, is it possible to regenerate a certificate ? As i got an "invalid" character in my last name, it didn't make it and now i got a blank instead on the certificate 🙃

Just want to regenerate it with my nick, as it's impossible with my first and last name lol

[blissful forge]

am I doing something wrong when it comes to hydra? On several of the THM rooms when it calls for a hydra attack (mrrobot, teamcw) when I launch the attack I get maybe 200 tries/min both over the VPN and the attack box which is obviously going to take way longer the box is up for (800 hours)

[crystal marlin]

Unfortunately you can not once you generated it. But at least if you fix it, you will have it displayed correct for any upcoming certs you generate. #site-support message

[naive dust]

I had an another account before and got the same issue, the problem here is that i couldn't generate the certificate using my nickname too

[naive dust]

as the website is using htmlentities, it seems to bug the generation function

[crystal marlin]

Mh, other then that you can't regenerate the cert with a different name or fixed character I dunno. So therefore you might want to send them an email, explaining your issue, and providing screenshots to fully understand what the issue is.

[naive dust]

ok, thanks

[glad lark]

i have the latest openvpn and newer config file, i still get the error

2021-12-28 18:13:06 DEPRECATED OPTION: --cipher set to 'AES-256-CBC' but missing in --data-ciphers (AES-256-GCM:AES-128-GCM). Future OpenVPN version will ignore --cipher for cipher negotiations. Add 'AES-256-CBC' to --data-ciphers or change --cipher 'AES-256-CBC' to --data-ciphers-fallback 'AES-256-CBC' to silence this warning. 2021-12-28 18:13:06 OpenVPN 2.5.5 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on Dec 28 2021 2021-12-28 18:13:06 library versions: OpenSSL 1.1.1l 24 Aug 2021, LZO 2.10 2021-12-28 18:13:06 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 512 bit message hash 'SHA512' for HMAC authentication 2021-12-28 18:13:06 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 512 bit message hash 'SHA512' for HMAC authentication 2021-12-28 18:13:06 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]3.7.33.194:1194 2021-12-28 18:13:06 Socket Buffers: R=[212992->212992] S=[212992->212992] 2021-12-28 18:13:06 UDP link local: (not bound) 2021-12-28 18:13:06 UDP link remote: [AF_INET]3.7.33.194:1194

[crystal marlin]

Is that it, no errors ? Maybe wait a bit longer, like 2 - 3 mins to see if there is something like "No reply within 60 seconds" or similar

[glad lark]

TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity) 2021-12-28 18:22:55 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed 2021-12-28 18:22:55 SIGUSR1[soft,tls-error] received, process restarting 2021-12-28 18:22:55 Restart pause, 5 second(s) 2021-12-28 18:23:00 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 512 bit message hash 'SHA512' for HMAC authentication 2021-12-28 18:23:00 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 512 bit message hash 'SHA512' for HMAC authentication 2021-12-28 18:23:00 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]3.7.33.194:1194 2021-12-28 18:23:00 Socket Buffers: R=[212992->212992] S=[212992->212992] 2021-12-28 18:23:00 UDP link local: (not bound) 2021-12-28 18:23:00 UDP link remote: [AF_INET]3.7.33.194:1194

[crystal marlin]

Then most likely one of these reasons apply to you: #site-support message

[glad lark]

wow. i was able to connect fine day before yesterday. thankyou for helping

[gilded tusk]

die anyone of the winners got an email that he won?

[spare flare]

hi i need littl help are u using IN-Regular-1 server?

[crystal marlin]

I would give them 1 - 2 days at least, it's not even 24 hours ago when they announced it. Btw, gz 🙂

[crystal marlin]

If you explain your issue, you might find someone who can help you

[willow plover]

Guys I'm not able to buy tryhackme subscription it shows error

[spare flare]

disable any vpn or proxy and try to share the exact error. Or screenshot.

Futher if this is a genuine issue. You can mail the support

[glad lark]

If i'm able to connect to HTB fine, are the mentioned points still valid ?
Edit : after connecting to HTB labs, i tried to connect to THM and now im connected successfully.

[willow plover]

We have encountered a problem while accessing your papal account

I can't share screenshot i don't have permission

[spare flare]

hey It look like it related to my account. I logged in to my friend account and then the config. file is good.

I'm crying in pain....🥲

[crystal marlin]

Not sure if it's related to your account, the same issue happens with the EU-VIP server sometimes, also for me it happened. I then just used the regular servers and after a while I tried again, then it was working fine. So my suggestion, send them an email about your issue, so that they have a record of it and try again later, to regenerate your file, wait a couple of minutes before trying to download and then download it.

[spare flare]

Eu server is working fine. But when i download config with in-regular-1 i get incomplete config

[eager fulcrum]

Click regenerate. Wait 1 minute. Try downloading again.

[spare flare]

i tried 🥲 . Like hours.

[eager fulcrum]

Ok then wait a bit longer?

[spare flare]

trying different browser on different ip. hOpe that works

[crystal marlin]

As I said, that exact issue with the missing cert part is not only happening for IN server. Not sure what it is related to, but that's just my suggestion for you.

[spare flare]

yup. My friend is able to connect with it.. 🥲 and generate new normally

[eager fulcrum]

It'll be account based...

[spare flare]

will drop a mail related to this to support

why this only happens with me. I'm i the unlucky... cries in agony

[spare flare]

yup you are right 100%....no luck...

[craggy canopy]

so with eu servers from openvpn i get the error Inline Cerificate is invalid and i cant use them , the problem is every other server is way to slow literally unusable . How do i fix this error?

[spare flare]

ah... same issue like me read above. Inline certificate issue means a the certificate is missing in the config file

this is exactly same issue

[eager fulcrum]

Cc @zealous yoke looks like servers are having issues again

[craggy canopy]

U got a certificate?

[spare flare]

nope it loook like server side issue

[potent nacelle]

My account seems to have been removed? Is there a way to recover it?

[craggy canopy]

damn because even the 3thrd eu server is pretty slow , i tryed logging into a ctf with wordpress and after 10 minutes the wp login still wasnt loaded , and all the other servers (non eu ) are even slower

[amber panther]

I have a new Discord user (old ones were deleted by me) and I want to use the "Discord Token" again to verify my user in Discord account. Can some Mod unlink my old account please?

[errant harness]

Hello everyone, when I try to download my Configuration File for OpenVPN i get a 404 error page, can someone help me ?

[crystal marlin]

#site-support message

[modest sonnet]

@tawny idol so try changing openvpn server location and regenerate the config file

[sterile talon]

Hi, I have a problem with vpn, I have been experiencing this error for several months, someone, has anyone had the same thing happen to them? VPN: EU, I try to regenerate both vpn EU

[modest sonnet]

gimme sec

nano/vim your config file, and add the following line:
data-ciphers AES-256-GCM:AES-128-GCM:CHACHA20-POLY1305:AES-256-CBC
under some options like resolv-retry infinite.

[sterile talon]

The config file is /etc/default/openvpn, right?

[modest sonnet]

noo

your tryhackme .ovpn file

[sterile talon]

Nothing

Another Error

[modest sonnet]

send screenshot

[sterile talon]

😭

[modest sonnet]

do you do sudo?

[sterile talon]

Yes

sudo nano file.ovpn

and add the line under resolv-retry

[modest sonnet]

i meant sudo openvpn file.ovpn

[sterile talon]

aaah sure sure

[modest sonnet]

try changing auth SHA512 to auth SHA256

in config file as well

and can you screenshot there when you done

[gilded tusk]

does anyone know why i am keep getting this error message when iam using hashcat? Initializing backend runtime for device #1...zsh: illegal hardware instruction

[iron heart]

hello all, I'm getting this alert when using the VPN for THM:

Authenticate/Decrypt packet error: packet HMAC authentication failed

It doesn't seem to interfere with connecting to the THM network or participating in the labs or anything but it is an error that's been popping up recently. I regenerated my .ovpn file a few days ago just in case something was wrong there and I'm still getting the error. Is this something to be worried about? Am I able to fix it?

[iron heart]

Are you running Kali on a live distro?

[gilded tusk]

kali vm

[iron heart]

The only thing I'm seeing on google is that it's likely due to old/incompatible drivers. I just ran hashcat on my persistent Kali VM and didn't get that issue. Is your VM and hashcat updated?

[gilded tusk]

yes

[sterile talon]

@modest sonnet nothing same error

[modest sonnet]

@sterile talon you better take a look at "tryhackme openvpn troubleshooting script" over here https://github.com/tryhackme/openvpn-troubleshooting

I'm not experienced enough with VPNs

[sterile talon]

Its not work, dont worry, thank you for the help ^^

[spare flare]

hi its a known issue. INLINE certificate issue. means the certificate is missing in the config file.

you issue look like this . I have already explained the cause. and there is no way to fix. Unless a server side fix is released.

to bypass this issue. You need to change the server to another server. Most probably another server might be working for you

[sterile talon]

Yes, another server work, US VPN is work, but there is high ping

If i copy the certificate of US VPN and paste in the file EU VPN, could work?

[spare flare]

NO

certificate and key are pair generated according to you. You can't copy paste another person or any another combination

[naive dust]

Guys, I am having the same problem for several days now

I cannot connect to a target machine

openvpn is running in my terminal

[sterile talon]

What can i do then? @spare flare , download another vpn?

[naive dust]

And I am connected to THM

Could someone please help me resolve this issue?

[spare flare]

yes. change to another server. And connect.

further you can login another browser and retry to generate the config file. then wait for few minutes and see if it work
else
wait till a global server fix is released
else
drop a mail at support.

[sterile talon]

OMG

[spare flare]

pls explain something about your issue. or share screenshot. You can't connect to the machine???

[naive dust]

Yes it keeps loading

Not much to show you

[sterile talon]

There was another EU-VPN(3) , and its working

OMG

[spare flare]

nice 🤩

[sterile talon]

thank you so much guys ^^

Im gonna save this vpn

[spare flare]

https://github.com/tryhackme/openvpn-troubleshooting try this..

this will explain what is the issue

[naive dust]

Not working either

Honestly I have tried everything

[sterile talon]

Where are you Bens?

[spare flare]

What this says? this script keeps loading???

[naive dust]

It also keeps loading

[sterile talon]

Maybe try change vpn

[naive dust]

EU vpn1 doesnt disconnect and EU3 never connects

EU2 doest let me download a file

idk whats going on

• openvpn is running

[spare flare]

pls confirm, this script doesn't give output?? and it keeps loading?

[naive dust]

• burpsuite is off/foxyproxy is off

[edgy bloom]

I registered with my .edu school e-mail, but I cannot benefit from the student account discount.Please help me.

[spare flare]

#site-support message plz read this

[edgy bloom]

thank you

[craggy canopy]

hey uhm this hasnt really something to do with thm but i cant use virtualbox , i am able to install it via installer without errors , but then when i click it nothing happens , no pop ups , nothing . But according to Task Manager the vbox manager and in general the application is running. has anyone the same porblem or knows how to fix that? Im using vmware rn but tbh i dont like it at all and strangely have some wifi problems with it aswell . Although it isnt a thm problem i hope someone is able to help me

[junior spoke]

Hi everyone are you there ?

I've a question but i can't ask it here because it can be a spoil for a CTF, can i MP an admin pls ?

Or a tech support ? 😉

[craggy canopy]

#room-bugs or #room-help i guess ( #room-hints also) , depends on what u need

[junior spoke]

Thanks

[craggy canopy]

no problem

[naive dust]

I have 16GB RAM and a pretty fast CPU

but when I crack hashes in VM they use all resources

john for example takes soo long to hash and makes the VM get stuck for quite some time

Anyone know why?

[celest wadi]

I mean, isn't that the point to hash cracking, to use all resources?

yeh, hashcat can be used with windows

[naive dust]

As in memory not the words

it runs but never ends

[celest wadi]

so, can john

so, don't use a vm for hash cracking

just look up how to use john or hashcat in windows and use the full force of your system!

[naive dust]

Okay thanks

[barren scaffold]

Good evening, this message means that i need to first purchase a subscription and then email the support for student discount, is that still correct ?

Because on the website https://docs.tryhackme.com/docs/sales-billing/sales-billing-student/ , it's not said we have to subscribe first and then ask the support for partial refund.

Could someone help me ?

[warm spear]

That message is over a year old, I am not sure as I no longer work for TryHackMe 🙂

[barren scaffold]

oh ^^ (and sorry for the ping reference)

thank you anyway 😉

Then I'll wait until their answer here or email

[craggy canopy]

so on my openvpn file it takes to long to connenct , i can only switch between eu 1 and 2 and tryed to regenerate like 1000x times. can somebody help me?

[velvet bay]

Anyone else encounter a Gateway Timeout error trying to open a website when starting a machine? I have this issue in the IDOR and Discovering Content rooms...

I have the same issue, did you find a solution?

[edgy seal]

Dont remember.. try typing the ip in browser instead?

[velvet bay]

I already tried, it didn't work 😦 But thanks for the answer

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @edgy seal

[hollow otter]

!docs student

[sharp bison]

TryHackMe

Redeem your student discount!

https://help.tryhackme.com/billing/student-discount

From TryHackMe with ❤!

[barren scaffold]

Thanks !

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @hollow otter

[edgy seal]

And if you specify the port?

[edgy seal]

Is vpn up?

[velvet bay]

Eveeeerything is in order. One is working and the next one, doesn't :/ I tried to specify the port number but it didn't work. I'll try later to fix the problem.

[crystal marlin]

Solved it ?

[stray gorge]

will a vm take up space in my real discs

[placid mango]

This channel is for support related to site and VPN. Ask in #infosec-general or #general .

[next totem]

Hi, im not sure whether is this the right channel.

• My 200+ streak vanished completely, and I attempted to contact support via email, but there has been no official response as of yet; what should I do?

[naive dust]

hey were do i go to redeem a voucher that was gifted to me?

NVM im dumb

[west saddle]

Hello,
i was solving a practice ctf challenge and here is the source code for the challenge
My doubt is what can i do to overwrite the bal global variable through format string vulnerability?
or any other possible way to get to buy_repair_kit()

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<time.h>
#include<unistd.h>

int bal = 100;
void use_tape(){
char experience[50];
char flag[50];

FILE *fp;
fp = fopen("flag.txt", "rb");
if(fp != NULL){
fgets(flag, 50, fp);
fclose(fp);

printf("Please give us your feedback!\n");
fgets(experience, 50, stdin);
printf(experience);
exit(0);
}else{
printf("Error opening file!\n");
exit(1);
}

}

void check_leaks(){
char leak[100];

printf("You currently have %d dollars with you!\n", bal);

printf("Where would you like to check your leaks? \n");
fgets(leak, 100, stdin);
printf(leak);

}

void call_plumber(){
printf("Why must you call the plumber when you can fix the leak yourself?\n");
}

void buy_repair_kit(){
if(bal == 200){
use_tape();
}else{
printf("You do not have enough balance! :(\n");
}
}

void initialize()
{
    setvbuf(stdin,0,2,0);
    setvbuf(stdout,0,2,0);
    setvbuf(stderr,0,2,0);
    alarm(30);
}

int main(){
char choice; int bal;

initialize();

printf("Welcome to my home!\nI have recently bought a new house, however, there seems to be a small leakage problem with the pipes.\nI was hoping you could help me fix it.\n");
while(1){
printf("\n1. Check for leaks\n2. Call plumber\n3. Buy repair kit\n\nChoice: ");

scanf("%c", &choice);
getchar();
fflush(stdin);

switch(choice){
    case '1':
        check_leaks();
        break;
    case '2':
        call_plumber();
        break;
    case '3':
        buy_repair_kit();
        break;
    default:
        printf("Invalid choice: \n");
        break;
}
}
return 0;

}

[minor wave]

yoo vpn was working

and all the sudden it stopped

[crystal marlin]

You might want to add some more details

[minor wave]

I have the ovpn file and It was working and all the sudden in the middle of a CTF it cant initiate a connection with the vpn

[crystal marlin]

Then provide the openvpn output when trying to initiate a connection pls

[minor wave]

@crystal marlin

[pseudo orchid]

try ro change the server and re install the openvpn

[crystal marlin]

Check this post, might one of these reasons apply: #site-support message

[short depot]

anyone has had an issue with foxyproxy not showing burp as a selectable option even though proxy intercept is on?

[naive dust]

Did you add Burp to FoxyProxy?

[short depot]

ok I added an entry with ipnport 127.0.0.1 and 8080 that seems to do the trick. so it's a manual setup

[naive dust]

Well, yes. FoxyProxy wasn't made only for Burp. You can use it for other things also.

@short depot Everything's working now?

[short depot]

yeah it's intercepting now

[stuck niche]

Hi ! I have a little problem.
It's possible to unlink my THM account to this Discord account, please ? I would like to relink it by a another Discord account.
Thank you in advance

[noble dirge]

Maybe email support

[naive dust]

Reach out to a mod.

[stuck niche]

I would like to a mod see this, but I don't want to ping.
Anyway, when I was asking for it, I've got this response : #quiet-conversation message

[latent umbra]

Hiii
I can't start responder TCP server. I belive it's beacause of VNC.
Any idea ?

[spark plaza]

I have a .snap file in my ubuntu . How can I install it?

[spare flare]

although this is not related to tryhackme but.
sudo snap install xxxx.snap

This is very not a practical approach. And only meant for debugging.

this might help
https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/offline-snap-installers-and-possibility-to-update/275/2

[old gyro]

Hello, I received an email telling me I earned a badge and if I wanted to share it. When I go to the link it sent me. The page is rather grayed out and rendered unable to do anything. Is this normal?

I can see my badges but unable to scroll or do anything at all.

From the URL - it's pointing to "show_achievement_badge=world-wide-web"

[violet meteor]

Hi, @bronze vale 😄 Again I have encountered the same issue.

I guess ,now I know how to replicate it

[loud thorn]

In regards to : "Uh-oh! You can only deploy a maximum of 3 machines at a time.", is there any way to terminate the previous used machines?

[pulsar sparrow]

yes, but you have to go back into the room to terminate. I have not found a central page that you can terminate machines from.

[loud thorn]

crap.. thats was what I was afraid of. Thx bud

[crystal marlin]

If you don't know which rooms you have the machines deployed, you can also use that: #site-support message

[loud thorn]

that's neat 🙂 Thx

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @crystal marlin

[tawdry orbit]

Thank you for all your help in the support channels. 🙏

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @crystal marlin

[vital summit]

how do you open the command line on linux

as in i have the terminal open and try to type in commands but its just regular typing instead of commands

(this is after i open my vpn,) do i just open a new tab?

[naive dust]

Just open a new command line.

or terminal.

and leave the vpn one open.

[vital summit]

thank you firend

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @lament valve

[feral widget]

Hello Support. I just did an annual subscription hoping to get the 2 extra months. Am I missing anything here? I didn't get the 2 months extra.

[knotty halo]

You'll not get 14 instead of 12 months, but a reduced cost, resulting in being charged for 10 months instead of 12.

[feral widget]

Ooh.... I see. Thank you.

[knotty halo]

Happy to help, Shain! Good on ya for supporting THM!

Weirdly, I'm having an issue trying to get a connection establised to the metasploit postgresql-db, systemctl status postgresql shows the service as running, config looks good, script outpiut is here: https://termbin.com/ukzf

It looks like it can't establish a socket connection, because it's failing to find the socket, but I don't know why.

... I jsut had a look over the link, this looks horrible. I'll try to think of a better way.

Oh and @feral widget !docs verify

... Great.

!docs verify

[sharp bison]

TryHackMe

Verify your TryHackMe Profile!

https://help.tryhackme.com/community/discord

From TryHackMe with ❤!

[knotty halo]

Welp. Restored from snapshot and now it's working. Wonder wth that was.

[rough vine]

Hi Friends, is it possible to change my attackbox hosted location? Finding it to be slow today. thanks!

[neon elm]

Hi @rigid oxide
I have a problem with my account. Specifically I previously registered with email1 and verified email. I then switched to an email2 and also verified with it. Then when I changed my information back to email1 again, THM asked me to verify again, and I chose to verify but there was no email sent to my email1. Currently my account is still verified but the dashboard still shows that my account is not verified.

[naive dust]

@astral notch refresh your browser and the link will show up. if not, click on 'start machine'

[astral notch]

thank you. I wasnt starting the machine. I thought it would start automatically with the Kali

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @abstract hinge

[jade garden]

Attempting to try my hand at pentesting WebGoat.
I've almost got the automated login but OWASP ZAP Proxy keeps adding a forward slash to the login page which causes a 404.

Any tips how to prevent ZAP from adding a forward slash to urls?
The login url is
http://localhost:8080/WebGoat/login

But ZAP active scanning sends it with a forward slash that causes the 404.
http://localhost:8080/WebGoat/login/

[orchid echo]

I've got a question regarding vpn tunnel and starting a target machine | "connected via OpenVPN" and it gives me a machine IP | I also have the option to start a machine, which then provides a different local IPv4 address | Which IP address should I use as the target machine for the exercise?

[umbral topaz]

If it's anything like my issue, I have a virtual machine running kali and have OpenVPN on it, I am able to ping 10.10.10.10 but can't ping the target machine OWASP Juice Shop

[orchid echo]

Sounds similar. I'm not able to scan the machine setup for the exercise; only the initial vpn setup

[umbral topaz]

https://github.com/tryhackme/openvpn-troubleshooting Try this

[orchid echo]

ty. I'll check it out

[umbral topaz]

just to add, make sure your openvpn is not on the host pc, just in the virtualbox and terminate the tryhackme machine and then starting it again and the new IP given to you for the machine should work

it's worked for me

[tall ocean]

hmm i have a wierd problem (or my cats or kids are pressing keys on my computer ever time im logging out). When i´v ligged out from kali linux and logging in again the system language is changed. last time it was from swe to english, no big deal. this time it was from english to arabic or smt... so i cant even connect to the wifi cus the symbols are wrong... any ideas? :p

[lethal gyro]

help me to verify ,,,when i sent bot saying error

[celest wadi]

Weird, try selecting a default language in settings, might be automatic and changing, dunno for sure

[celest wadi]

!docs verify

[sharp bison]

TryHackMe

Verify your TryHackMe Profile!

https://help.tryhackme.com/community/discord

From TryHackMe with ❤!

[celest wadi]

Just dm this bot with "!verify <discord token>"

[tall ocean]

Ye keyboard and everything is still swe...

but all the text for example clock is arabic XD

[naive dust]

please try dpkg-reconfigure locales from your terminal

[tall ocean]

@naive dustye i did that

did not work, now i found out it show me the wrong time zone thats the problem... but i cant change timezone to utc+1 cus "+1" make arabic signs in that menu haha

[tall ocean]

Solved! alt + numlock combination ftw :p

[plain gate]

I have a little question and there we go "Is it easy to decrypt an ransomware ?"

[tall ocean]

@plain gateTotaly depends on the encryption

[plain gate]

Cause I want to try to decrypt one but I m scare to lunch it

Oh ok

Thx for this answer @tall ocean

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @tall ocean

[naive dust]

Maybe if you would ask this question in #infosec-general it would get better exposure since this channel is for THM related technical stuff.

[tall ocean]

@plain gate and what you wanna decrypt ofc. I´v never fiddled with it myself so i´m speaking only from other ppls experiences and googleling

[plain gate]

Ok good

Oopsy I've just saw what chanel I was

[shrewd rampart]

Hi, seems like there's something broke with the throwback-network, if anyone could have a look? (Also talked about in #743859653343182930 )

[unborn jacinth]

hi guys, i have some issues with changing my country in my profile. after reloading the site it always goes back to afghanistan.

[crystal marlin]

#site-support message

[unborn jacinth]

Worked, thank you

[stark mountain]

hello, currently connected to eu vip2 vpn with my own VM, tryhackme room shows i am connected and gives me the ip. started a vulnerable machine and pinged it succesfully.
Inputting IP into any browser gets stuck on loading without displaying any content.
using attackbox it works just fine.
been like this for some weeks, currently unable to use OpenVpn
any suggestions?

tried setting up fresh VMs aswell
i'm using nordvpn on host

internet works fine, can load any page

[knotty halo]

Grrr. Stumped on https://tryhackme.com/room/rpburpsuite, 'cause Burp is proxying everything, even though I think I set it up right so that it only intercepts traffic matching the following rules: ip is between 10.0.0.0 and 10.255,255.255, and the listener is bound to tun0.

Target Scope Settings

...

why the hell does the damn image not wanna upload?

Proxy Options 1

[modest lintel]

@knotty halo target scope seems to have one too many 255?

[knotty halo]

Already replaced it with jut the ec2 box ip and it's still not working.

[novel inlet]

sshuttle -r root@10.200.192.200 10.200.192.0/24 -e "ssh -i root.webserver.priv"

laurence@laupc ~/THM/wreath % ping 10.200.192.150
PING 10.200.192.150 (10.200.192.150) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- 10.200.192.150 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3027ms

[root@prod-serv ~]# ping 10.200.192.150
PING 10.200.192.150 (10.200.192.150) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.200.192.150: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=1.26 ms

why can I not ping 10.200.192.150 on wreath?

am I using sshuttle wrong?

when I try using nmap on 10.200.192.150 it says all ports are open

[stoic night]

in task 2 in room blue, the eternal blue exploit continuously fails on all VMs - ive rebooted multiple times. wat do? nvm forgot to set ip for LHOST

[cursive geyser]

Its working again

[paper vine]

Hey guys, I'm trying to connect to the tryhackme deployed machine using my personal virtual machine but it keeps refusing to connect. I wanted to know if I was able to connect to it or if the only way to use the machine is via the one provided on the page? would appreciate the help

[naive dust]

You can use your VM.

Are you connected via OpenVPN?

[dusk acorn]

today the tryhackmebox disconnects me all the time. anyone experiencing this?

for kali it says failed to connect

[left obsidian]

the windows vm is dissconecting

I terminated the machine then started a new one

[midnight loom]

Anyone else have weird issues with the website not displaying correctly, even after clearing cache/cookies?

[dusk acorn]

not me

[left obsidian]

by the way last thing I did before the occurrence of this was

this is an image from my setting, I enabled that option in the machine, idk if that could have been the reason .

[opal stirrup]

hello, i am new to discord.

how can i link my tryhackme account to discord

i am using the same username and email

?

[sharp bison]

TryHackMe

Verify your TryHackMe Profile!

https://help.tryhackme.com/community/discord

From TryHackMe with ❤!

[opal stirrup]

thanks mate

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @light vale

[opal stirrup]

i am a subscriber.. is it normal that it say "subscribed? No!" ??

[muted oxide]

hiii, anyone can help me with xsrftool? 😄 im stuck and cant make metadata work

[opal stirrup]

oh yeah, you are right. Good then. Thanks again Alek

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @light vale

[paper vine]

no VMware

[naive dust]

You have to connect to THM's VPN within your VM.
https://tryhackme.com/access

[paper vine]

thank you

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @lone karma

[naive dust]

Hi guys sorry for the stupid question but I've only ever used attackbox until now. My first time using a VM to complete a room

I'm trying to set up a basic PHP reverse shell

Which local IP do i use?

I'm already connected using OpenVPN btw

[plush bay]

the ip of the tun0 interface @naive dust

[naive dust]

ah ok do i need to use a option in ifconfig to get that?

[plush bay]

oh wait windows????

[naive dust]

no im in kali vm

[plush bay]

ip addr show tends to list all the network devices

[naive dust]

hm weird i dont think i can see tun0 when using that command

[plush bay]

shadow just tried and seems it gets outputed nicely with ifconfig

[naive dust]

im not just being blind am i

[plush bay]

also weird if you don't have a tun0 interface maybe the vpn failed to create one and connect

[naive dust]

let me reconnect and see

[plush bay]

are you running the vpn in the kali vm or on your host

[naive dust]

im running vpn on the host

[plush bay]

ah well then that is the problem

[naive dust]

oh damn haha

[plush bay]

try running the vpn in the kali vm instead

sure you could probably use some setup to make it able to be run on the host and then send the kalivm through the hosts vpn connection but shadow has no clue how to do that

[naive dust]

what is kali based on again? debian?

[plush bay]

yuup debian

[naive dust]

Thanks

[spiral mica]

for attacktive directory, i could also just use python3-impacket from the official kali repository, right? or is there something i gain from installing from source instead?

[dark moss]

hey can anyone tell me how to access the machine after connecting to openvpn

[spiral mica]

which machine?

the one you want to attack?

[dark moss]

yeah

??

[spiral mica]

they have an IP address. If you are supposed to SSH into them, you can do that with your favorite SSH client using the IP of the machine you want to attack. If you are supposed to RDP into it, you use your favorite RDP client and the machines IP address.
But in most rooms and tasks, you don't get that access. If the machine hosts a website, put the IP into your browsers address bar. If not, you will probably need to scan them with tools like nmap. From there you will need to enumerate the machine and try to find exploits to gain RCE (Remote Code Execution) or login credentials for SSH/RDP

[dark moss]

see there is this openvpn room in which we need to open the websitefor the flag but when i'm doing that ,the site can't be reached

why is it happening ?

[spiral mica]

are you sure you are connected to the VPN?

[dark moss]

let me recheck

[dark moss]

yeah i checked it again and i am connected to vpn

[spiral mica]

and you put the correct IP address into the address bar?

[dark moss]

yes i do

why is it happening

[spiral mica]

https://tryhackme.com/access

does this say you are connected?

[dark moss]

yes

[spiral mica]

could you please send me the ip address of the machine?

[dark moss]

is it safe ?

[spiral mica]

yes.

okay. i can access it. do you by any chance have another VPN set up in your browser?

[dark moss]

what does that mean ?

can you explain

hey bro i just tried to use this in my another laptop and it worked

[spiral mica]

you can also define a VPN to connect to in your browser settings (then, only the browser will use the VPN). I'm not sure if having another VPN set up in your browser might prevent you from accessing machines on THM

[dark moss]

why is it not working in this laptop ?

[spiral mica]

but you did set up the VPN on the laptop you tried to access the machine with, right? you did not set up the VPN on one laptop and then tried to access it from the other one, i assume?

[dark moss]

see i have a vm in my mac and i set up the connection to openvpn over there

and then i have this windows where i've open my tryhackme account and do this room

[spiral mica]

yeah, no. the vpn only works on the machine you set it up on. if you set it up in a vm, it only works in the vm

[dark moss]

oohh but then how did you able to access that url ?

[spiral mica]

i connected my physical machine to the VPN (i would recommend doing that, as if you do that, all VMs on your machine also automatically connect to the VPN. Just remember to disconnect from the VPN again after you are finished hacking) and then used my physical machine to access it. I could also have fired up my local kali VM this way and could still have accessed the website

[opal stirrup]

hello, i have been trying to update my country but it remain stuck on uk

[dark moss]

so if you try to access that url through your phone then it'll not work ?

[spiral mica]

correct

[opal stirrup]

any idea how to correct that?

[keen scroll]

https://tryhackme.com/api/user/update-timezone 😄

[opal stirrup]

that was smooth 😄 thanks infloop 😉

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @keen scroll

[dark moss]

btw so do i need to connect this windows pc to a vpn to access that url ?

[spiral mica]

if you want to access the URL from your windows machine, then yes.

[dark moss]

btw why is it like that we need to connect to a vpn and then only able to access that url

[spiral mica]

It's because the machines are in the THM network and are not accessible from the internet (as that would be a huge security risk), so only other machines inside the THM network can access them. I suggest doing the networking room to learn a bit more about that. Basically, what you tell your computer by connecting to the THM VPN is "hey, you are now part of that network".

[dark moss]

hey i just connected my mac (where i established that connection to openvpn ) to a vpn and still can't access that url

[spiral mica]

is the machine still running?

it's been around an hour. the machine probably was destroyed and you need to deploy it again

it then has a new ip address, so watch out for that

[dark moss]

no it's still 33 min remaining

[spiral mica]

hue. can you ping it? (open your terminal and execute ping x.x.x.x where x.x.x.x is the ip of the machine

[dark moss]

no

[spiral mica]

try accessing this ip 10.10.216.26

[dark moss]

btw i connect the mac using a different vpn

[dark moss]

can't ping this either

[spiral mica]

which vpn did you use?

[dark moss]

tunnelbear

[spiral mica]

so you did not use the THM vpn configuration? you connected to a VPN that isn't even owned by tryhackme?

[dark moss]

yeah , well i guess i got your point

btw really thanks for your time

[spiral mica]

yeah. you can't just use any VPN. you need to connect to the VPN of THM to be able to access the THM machines.

[spiral mica]

no problem

@dark moss
https://tryhackme.com/module/network-fundamentals

there are also other networking rooms on THM.

[main iris]

wreath network im on, the entry point keeps becoming unresponsive>

ping gets no route to host

it's happening several times a day, for the last 3 days

[naive dust]

#wreath-network

[main iris]

yeah

i've left it there

i'm not the only one

oops. sorry have to leave, but the subnet is 10.200.194.0/24

[sonic inlet]

Hello !! can i speak with a moderator ?? 😛 i have one !verify problem ...

[crystal marlin]

I'm not a mod, but you might want to first explain what your issue is

[sonic inlet]

I have delete my old discord account connected with my THM token .. now i have make new one and i cant verify with the old token cose the massage says " its in use "

[crystal marlin]

Then you might want to directly reach out to a mod via DM, as I think they will ask you for your token anyways.

[broken bear]

I think only senior mods have the capacity to do account token to discord verification stuff

[lilac reef]

hello

when I try to use to connect to thm using openvpn I keep getting TLS handshake failure, can someone help?

also i've question, I cannot connect to my thm ip thru ssh unless i've the vpn connected, right?!

[crystal marlin]

Check these reasons: #site-support message

[naive dust]

How long you on trial for now, or no clue?

[lilac reef]

how may I specify the problem?
also what are the ports?

[lilac reef]

openvpn works on my windows very fine so I've checked one

[broken bear]

I'm not worried about it 🙂 Uncertainty is a part of life

[naive dust]

I don't think you got anything to worry about either.

[crystal marlin]

I think it's 1194 UDP. Is it just not working in your VM ? Or isn't it a VM what's seen in the screen above?

[lilac reef]

ok, now .. It's not working on windows either lmao

I think it's blocked my country and it was a mistake when it worked xD

i've similar scenarios in games as the country blocks voip thru video games as well

[crystal marlin]

May I ask what country it is?

[lilac reef]

but sometimes it works by accident

[lilac reef]

Egypt :"(

[crystal marlin]

Ok, ye I think it's blocked there

[lilac reef]

is there any solution I can handle?

[crystal marlin]

I don't know of and even if I would I'm not sure if it would be allowed to discuss such things in here 🙂

[lilac reef]

is it illegal or am I discussing something wrong?

i don't know why it's even blocked, i.e the voip in video games .. like why? xD

[lilac reef]

i just want to connect to thm so i can finish my rooms :"

also i can't do the ssh thru my vm without it, right?

[crystal marlin]

I'm not sure so I better keep my hands off it 🙂 But you can still use the attackbox I guess

[crystal marlin]

Ye, you can ssh into the attackbox for example, I think it has a public IP as well so you don't need no vpn. For target machines you can not I think, in case the target machine in question even provides ssh for it.

[lilac reef]

1 hour a day xD, and It's already gone, I've not even finished the half of the room yet, and I'm not able to subscribe nowadays, final exams on the door :"D

[lilac reef]

I'll give it a try

thank you

[thin stirrup]

could someone help me with installing autopsy on an m1 mac? when I tried configuring sleuthkit it said that afflib support wasn't present but I've installed it and the file it needed was there

[whole mesa]

Hey friends, I've been having trouble running the Jr. Pentesting Path and I was wondering if you had some advice for me. I've been trying to get this thing to run in sync with my virtual machine, which I've already set up, but the problem really lies in the fact that I can't seem to get any websites linked to from the exercises to show up on my browser. What do you think's wrong?

[barren quail]

You might not be connecting to the vpn server properly, make sure you download and run the correct openvpn config file from here: "https://tryhackme.com/access" - the command for this is "sudo openvpn --config <path-to-config-file>"; if you've connected properly it should say "initialization complete" in the terminal where you ran the command. You can double check that you're connected by opening another terminal and running "ifconfig" then checking if there is a tun0 interface listed, if there is, you've connected properly. Then make sure the machine is started (there should be something that looks like the image below at the top of your screen.) Then, depending on the machine, you should be able to access webpages by navigating to http://<machine-ip>. If nothing here's worked so far you can check this link: https://docs.tryhackme.com/docs/openvpn/troubleshooting/openvpn-troubleshooting/ or ask for more help.

[proven stratus]

I am using the WindowsPrivSec room. I can access the windows machine from Kali using rdesktop. However, from the windows machine I can't ping my Kali machine. I need to transfer a file using a http server

[whole mesa]

Thanks friend, I’ll try this as soon as possible. You’ve been very helpful.

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @barren quail

[naive dust]

Would someone remove my discord token? Thx

[whole mesa]

I finally got it to register for me, the Access Details show true. Now when I go to the assignment though, it does not register the machine as connected in the frame you posted. I still have the option to open an attack box or kali. What do you think I should do?

[crystal marlin]

I'm not quite sure what you mean with "register for me". But the access page is not reliable to verify if you are successfully connected to the THM VPN. Do verify that either try to open 10.10.10.10 in your machines browser or enter curl 10.10.10.10/whoami in your terminal where you should get a reply with your THM IP.

[cursive geyser]

The Throwback network seems to be broken again. Restarted VPN twice and no response. Done NMAP scan of the network and only 136 responds as up. Thanks

[naive dust]

My parrot os vm internet just stopped working again, with no reason. This is happening me second time, internet just stops working with no reason.

[naive dust]

Hello

I am here

[ripe vine]

Try switching your vm's network configuration in the hypervisor i.e switch from NAT to bridged or something

[ripe vine]

Send a screenshot

[naive dust]

Um

This may sound stupid

But how do I take a one

On Linux

Ubuntu

[naive dust]

Tried that already, also I updated vm + extension packs. Nothing happend

[ripe vine]

Shift + Print. It lets you take a screenshot of a section of your screen. You also have to verify before you can send images.

!docs verify

[sharp bison]

TryHackMe

Verify your TryHackMe Profile!

https://help.tryhackme.com/community/discord

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[ripe vine]

Hrm. What hypervisor?

[naive dust]

Nat, tried bridge and nat network, nothing changed

[ripe vine]

The hypervisor is the software you use for virtualisation i.e virtual box, vmware etc

[naive dust]

Oh, didn't know that. It's virtualbox

[ripe vine]

Eish. Might want to try searching online then. If all else fails then reinstall

[naive dust]

i cant send the screenshot

[naive dust]

You need to verify :)

oh

so how do i do such thing?

[naive dust]

Click that link above and follow instructions

[naive dust]

I've asked on r/virtualbox. Reinstalling system would be such a pain in the ass, since I have bunch of stuff on my machine. Is there a way of doing that without having to reinstall everything from 0 ?

[naive dust]

Is this WIFI?

[ripe vine]

Reinstalling the software doesn't delete your VMs by default

[naive dust]

I've updated it to the newest version

It's odd, because internet on other linux machines is working just fine

[naive dust]

How could he reinstall without internet access?

@ripe vine

[naive dust]

Replace /path/to/file with the actual path-to-file

[naive dust]

It's on my virtualbox, not main machine

[naive dust]

I am getting it, but I guess what was suggested is to reinstall network manager in the VM.

[naive dust]

what is the actual path to file

[naive dust]

Did you download that file?

yes

@naive dust Good, so it's in your download folder. I guess ~/Downloads

its not

thats my downloads folder

OK. You download just recently?

Got that.

yes

OK. Firefox browser?

no i use google chrome

You can search for the file if you are not sure where it's stored, or you can find out where Chrome stores downloaded files.

But I am not sure you downloaded

Downlaods.

its downloaded

i am sure

ok

open a terminal

i ran the cmd

CMD?

command

Which command?

You need to download it from https://tryhackme.com/access

If you used chrome to download in Kali

I'm sure it's either

/home/Downloads
/kali/Downloads

@naive dust He is using Ubuntu

What is he trying to do, I believe I can noobsplain him ?

[naive dust]

Ah, same path then, different name.

[bronze vale]

/home/user/Directory usually?

[naive dust]

He thinks he downloaded a file but he has not access to /tryhackme.com/access

[naive dust]

Usually, but for some reason that's my path.

Or was, I changed it so anything saved goes straight to the Desktopm

[naive dust]

If you can not access https://tryhackme.com/access then you did not download the OpenVPN config file.

[naive dust]

For some reason thm links are not working properly. He needs to find it manually on thm

[bronze vale]

They can access the access page, just not download the file.

[naive dust]

yes

[naive dust]

He shared a 404 screenshot above.

[bronze vale]

Yup, but it’s not because of the access page:)

[bronze vale]

#site-support message

It’s because of the configuration file not generating correctly so upon downloading it 404’s

[naive dust]

i'll try to do that

[naive dust]

Ah :) Did not realize that he tried to download it. Just saw the 404 page.

@naive dust

[bronze vale]

You need to use the OpenVPN GUI if you’re using windows

[naive dust]

It's probably called yourusename.ovpn, not file.ovpn

[bronze vale]

You can’t use WSL or anything from the Microsoft store because they suck with routing

If you want to use a Virtual Machine, download VMware or Virtual Box

[naive dust]

still didnt work

i have it in my downloads folder btw

if that helps

Type this sudo openvpn /home/Ubuntu/Downloads/xrazor.ovpn

[bronze vale]

I love being ignored

You. Can’t. Use. WSL.

[naive dust]

i didnt ignore you

i just dont know anything of what you just said

[naive dust]

Ask :))

[naive dust]

He's on ubuntu ¿

[bronze vale]

Nope they’re on Windows

[naive dust]

didnt work

i am on ubuntu

not windows

why would you think i am on windows

[ripe vine]

That is waaaay off

[naive dust]

Can you send us ss of error.

[naive dust]

So please explain. They thought it means erase the VM, I though reinstall nm. What did you mean?

[bronze vale]

If you’re not on windows that’s my fault

[naive dust]

i think i know why it tricked you

[bronze vale]

But I don’t know how on Earth you’re on Ubuntu

[naive dust]

Your path to the file might be wrong.

I'd check with chrome where it saves the files.

its in my downloads folder

Can you just press on files and find downloads in file manager, your path is wrong probably

[ripe vine]

sudo openpvn ~/Downloads/file.ovpn replace file with your THM username

[bronze vale]

https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/linux-filesystem-explained/

Take a read

[ripe vine]

The path isn't at fault. It's his specification

[bronze vale]

If you don’t know how to use paths you’re really going to struggle

[naive dust]

find / -type f -name Xrazor.ovpn 2>/dev/null my take :)

[ripe vine]

Using ~/Downloads instead should remedy it

[naive dust]

the error is diffrent we are getting closer

different*

[ripe vine]

I said reinstall the hypervisor

[bronze vale]

You misspelled OpenVPN

[naive dust]

oh ye

[ripe vine]

No clue how you derived Network manager from that

[naive dust]

yay

it works

[ripe vine]

Awesome

[naive dust]

and my connection to discord is slow as fuck

[ripe vine]

Now go do linux fundamentals lol

You'll need it

[naive dust]

thanks alot everybody

Now find linux fundamentals on thm and spend a lot of time in those rooms on thm

you have a really wholesome community

For the sake of understanding basic linux orientation

i have a question

how to enable the vpn

[bronze vale]

Wut

What do you mean by that?

[naive dust]

like how do i make it so it changes my ip

[bronze vale]

OpenVPN doesn’t route your traffic

Just allows you to have a tunnel to our server

[naive dust]

oh

really

lame

JK

is that automatic?

[bronze vale]

It’s not really lame, it serves the required purpose

[naive dust]

The point is not to change your ip, the point is to be able to acces tryhackme machines that are not hosted on the internet.

um guys

does it do it automatically

[bronze vale]

Do what

[naive dust]

like make a funnel or tunnel whatever you called it to the tryhackme machiens

[bronze vale]

When you type “sudo openvpn” that makes the tunnel for you

[naive dust]

It does, that is the whole point of using configuration files

[bronze vale]

Type ip a s tun0 and you will see the tunnel:)

[naive dust]

what do i do in koth

omg

i am going to loseeeee

[bronze vale]

I wouldn’t do KOTH yet

[naive dust]

lmao

but what do i even do

to start

ive pressed every button

[naive dust]

https://www.tryhackme.com/paths presecurity path

Learn linux basics, networking basics. That would be the presecurity path

Everything is nicely explained and noob friendly

[patent tusk]

Good Path

[latent badge]

Does anyone know the process for having roles added? Sec+ for example.

[crystal marlin]

I think you have to reach out to a mod for that. Or is that already solved, as I already see the A+ role added ?

[latent badge]

No I have sec+ as well. I don't know how A+ got on there. I don't remember telling anyone that. Lol

I don't see a few that I have but they aren't directly related to hacking either.

[crystal marlin]

Uhm, okay ^^ Well ye, I think the way would be to reach out to a mod for that. So you might ping a mod and ask.

[latent badge]

Thanks @crystal marlin

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @crystal marlin

[latent badge]

You're a valid user in my eyes. Lol

[crystal marlin]

Uhm, not quite sure what you mean with that, but thx 😄

[sonic inlet]

Hello again!

[dawn girder]

Hello, having an issue with "Kenobi". I think it may be a bug, but I was hoping for a sanity check first. (Also I'm new here so if this is the wrong channel, lmk.) I'm at the point where I have the ssh key and am trying to connect via ssh. When I "ssh -i id_rsa kenobi@x.x.x.x" it hangs for about a minute and then I get "Connection closed by x.x.x.x port 22". Up to this point I have:

1. Restarted the machine I'm attacking twice
2. Checked that I'm connected to the VPN and that my routing table is correctly routing packets
3. Checked that the file permissions on the id_rsa file are correct
4. Checked my ssh command for error including the IP address

Am I missing something glaringly obvious?

[naive dust]

Hello!

[sonic inlet]

can any moderator help me with my !verify problem 😛

[naive dust]

I don't think there is any around at the moment.

You've deleted your previous account?

[sonic inlet]

my Discord account yes ..

and now i try with my new one and my token id it's in use with my old account ...

[naive dust]

Yeah, I'm sure once the mods see it someone will do it for you.

Unless your old account was secretly banned.

[sonic inlet]

my discord account ?? or THM account ??

[naive dust]

Either

[sonic inlet]

no ban on both accounts

and THM site works perfect with my account

just that Verify thing 😛

[naive dust]

=] I believe you.

[celest wadi]

robocop has a bug where it shows the +1 rep users name as "@"invalid" so he said you were valid in his eyes!!

[crystal marlin]

Oh okay, thanks for letting me know, for me robocop didn't show "invalid" so I was wondering 😄

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @celest wadi

[celest wadi]

yeh muiri explained that it only shows you the username if its already in ur cache or something like that

[weak jacinth]

Wacky fun for the day: So, I had an annoying experience with using Hydra for the Hash room (old Macbook Pro running Kali). The low down on the interwebs tells me that when installed in UEFI mode (only method possible from a USB install) it cannot access the GPU correctly. This is due to Apple's "wonderful" UEFI implementation. The fix was to burn an iso to disc, hold the opt key when booting, and select the Windows option to boot into BIOS installation mode. From there you can fight to get all of the drivers right... Turned out that I needed mesa-open-cl-icd.

[weak jacinth]

scratch that... Quite frustrated...

[unreal kindle]

hey can someone help me

im using xubuntu rn and tryna save some txt files i changed for smt

and i click file and save

close it out

and when i go to open it back up

its back to the way it was before i changed it

[weak jacinth]

what permissions do you need to write the file?

ls -la and check the owner/group/other

[unreal kindle]

is did ls -la and it just spit out a bunch of the different files i have and they all have root root before them

[unreal kindle]

hey im tryna install wine on xubuntu rn

would these cmds be the correct ones to use in the terminal?

[dawn girder]

A simple “sudo apt install wine” should get the version supported by your distro.

[unreal kindle]

oh alr

[dawn girder]

Those steps look like they are having you install a different version than what xubuntu already has in the repository and is likely to cause conflicts later down the line.

[broken bear]

Some software may not run correctly under different versions of WINE as well. A quick google to figure out if anyone has gotten your specific software to work can save you hours of troubleshooting.

[unreal kindle]

so to use wine i right click and open with other application

and find wine in the list?

[dawn girder]

That’s also a really good point. You should be able to find a lot of programs that work at https://appdb.winehq.org/

[unreal kindle]

the program im using is from github it just sends notifications to my discord server

[dawn girder]

I don’t usually use the GUI for that so I’m not sure. I would start by running winecfg as that will generate a lot of the configuration. After that you should be able to run “wine (program name)” in the terminal.

[unreal kindle]

i did winecfg and its being updated

do i put windows 10?

?

um

[dawn girder]

Default values have worked well for me in general.

[unreal kindle]

what abt the windows version

i feel like putting 10 instead of 7 would be better but im not sure'

[dawn girder]

If an application is having issues though, you can add it and change to a specific version of Windows. If ten feels better, go for it. I don’t know enough about the backend to know what actually shifts when you change that.

[unreal kindle]

alr

i hit apply

its frozen so

im not sure whats wrong

its frozen and wont do anything

[unreal kindle]

what do i do now?

its frozen

nvm

i tried running it

and it gave me a error

[dawn girder]

That’s where you are going to have to troubleshoot. If you ran it in the terminal it should give you a general idea, or at least an error you can Google. Wine is great for what it is, but it’s far from perfect.

Ah

So in Linux you run programs in the current folder by putting a dot slash in front of it. Eg “./main.exe”

So you would do “wine ./main.exe”

[unreal kindle]

oh ok

[dawn girder]

Just make sure you are in the directory where main.exe is stored.

[unreal kindle]

liek its open?

wdym by in it

or like cd the folder for it

[dawn girder]

Correct.

[unreal kindle]

oh alr

[unreal kindle]

im still kinda new to linux terminal do i do cd and no spaces the directory at the top of the folder?

?

um

[unreal kindle]

says theres no file directory for this

nvm i put it wrong it says cant find main.exe

i figured it out

[dawn girder]

Sweet! I’d strongly recommend a basic course on using the Linux terminal if you aren’t super familiar with it. There is a learning curve for sure, but it makes trouble shooting issues much easier.

[short crest]

Hi, i need help i got billed twice and only got a month.

Who can I talk to in order to solve the problem

[crisp jungle]

I can't connect to the vpn

[naive dust]

Windows or Kali?

[crisp jungle]

Windows

[naive dust]

Have you downloaded the openvpn?

[crisp jungle]

yes

[naive dust]

Config file?

[crisp jungle]

I have one if that's what you mean

Got it working

[proven stratus]

If the machine in a room is not reachable from an attackbox, is that a problem in the tryhackme infra? It was working fine, then stopped working

[modest totem]

Could depend on whether you've subscribed or not?

[winged meadow]

its so easy now learning the basics when i was new i used to watch youtube vids or blog and copy paste when doin cd without knowing anything

thats how i learned the basics :)) it was soo hard

[finite saffron]

Hi all,
is everyone seeing the same after starting VM ?? I think earlier it used to come different way.

[modest sonnet]

it's probably visual bug, try CTRL + F5

[frigid hatch]

Happy New Year, I need some help, the Linux Fundamentals part 3 [Start Machine] button isn't working or rather the room "says" it's running but is no where to be seen. The Attackbox is fine but isn't used in this room. Whats the or is there a fix?

[naive dust]

How to install openvpn ?

I followed the tout but step 2 not working maybe the path was wrong
I installed it in Dawonloads file

sudo openvpn /path/to/file.ovpn
Options error: In [CMD-LINE]:1: Error opening configuration file: /path/to/file.ovpn
Use --help for more information.

[naive dust]

Whats the path for the file?

It should be

Sudo openvpn/path/to/file.ovpn

its In dwonloads

!docs verify

[sharp bison]

TryHackMe

Verify your TryHackMe Profile!

https://help.tryhackme.com/community/discord

From TryHackMe with ❤!

[naive dust]

Then you can send a s/shot

Or copy and paste the url for me.

THANK YOU

Add my name to that please

[celest wadi]

Here +rep @naive dust
Remember it's just useless Internet points!

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @lament valve

[naive dust]

They're the best.

[tough bolt]

Hello, I use arch and I have a problem with some metasploit apps, can someone help me ?
example :

[-] Auxiliary failed: NoMethodError undefined method `+' for nil:NilClass
[-] Call stack:
[-]   /opt/metasploit/lib/rex/proto/http/client_request.rb:434:in `set_host_header'
[-]   /opt/metasploit/lib/rex/proto/http/client_request.rb:181:in `to_s'
[-]   /opt/metasploit/lib/rex/proto/http/client.rb:252:in `send_request'
[-]   /opt/metasploit/lib/rex/proto/http/client.rb:232:in `_send_recv'
[-]   /opt/metasploit/lib/rex/proto/http/client.rb:209:in `send_recv'
[-]   /opt/metasploit/lib/msf/core/exploit/remote/http_client.rb:338:in `send_request_raw'
[-]   /opt/metasploit/modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/http_version.rb:34:in `run_host'
[-]   /opt/metasploit/lib/msf/core/auxiliary/scanner.rb:124:in `block (2 levels) in run'
[-]   /opt/metasploit/lib/msf/core/thread_manager.rb:105:in `block in spawn'
[-]   /opt/metasploit/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.7.0/gems/logging-2.3.0/lib/logging/diagnostic_context.rb:474:in `block in create_with_logging_context'
[*] Auxiliary module execution completed```

[naive dust]

are Installing openVPN after add path take long time?

Here +rep @naive dust

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @lament valve

[crystal marlin]

Not sure what you mean exactly ?

[naive dust]

its still not connected

That is connected.

[crystal marlin]

How do you know ? Regarding the screenshot you provided the initialization was successful and you should be connected by now.

[naive dust]

Just leave it there, and minimise that terminal.

Go to 10.10.10.10 in the browser.

yea thanks alot its my first time doing this

Gave +1 Rep to @naive dust

Gave +1 Rep to @crystal marlin

We're all beginners at some point.

and every time I want to run openVPN do the same step ? adding path in cmd!

[celest wadi]

Well, if you want you can add a Cronjob that runs this command in the background when you start your computer

[naive dust]

if I don't want to do this? any other solution?

[celest wadi]

Just run this command whenever you need to access a THM machine!

[crystal marlin]

You can create and alias. But just entering the command should be fine as well.

[celest wadi]

Don't aliases "die" when you restart?

[crystal marlin]

No, you can for sure set up permanent alias.

[celest wadi]

Ah but simply alias ls -la =ll would be removed, ic

[crystal marlin]

Could be ye, but as I don't have an alias for the vpn connection myself atm, I'm going to add one now and let you know if it got added permanently

[celest wadi]

Yeh leme know how that works out!

[crystal marlin]

Okay, so for kali linux either add your alias to your .zshrc directly or create a file called .shell_aliases and add
if [ -f ~/.shell_aliases ]; then . ~/.shell_aliases fi to .zshrc

[celest wadi]

Yeh thought so, you'd have to add em or they'd get removed, thanks for the info!!

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @crystal marlin

[celest wadi]

Or .bashrc for bash shells*

[crystal marlin]

Ye, I thought it was bash the whole time, until I figured out: Apparently, since Kali Linux 2020.4 default shell is no longer bash, but zsh 😄

[celest wadi]

That was a PAIN for me, I had to change to it to bash again cause nostalgia!

[coarse hamlet]

How do we fix which country our profile is assigned to? I am australian not UK

[crystal marlin]

Try that: #site-support message

[coarse hamlet]

Awesome thanks! Hopefully the UX on the site improves, loving the learning paths and rooms but the site sure does have some rough edges 😦

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @crystal marlin

[thorny osprey]

same issue with redline, can't do it

[unique nebula]

it kinda worked after a while

[thorny osprey]

I'm at my 5th restarted machine, I think imma just skip it

aaand autopsy crashed after I loaded the case

[ember aurora]

Hello, How can I changed tryhackme payment method?

[crystal marlin]

Check one of your previous subscription purchase emails you received, at the bottom you should find a link to a payment management site.

[ember aurora]

Thank you!

[maiden pumice]

is there any problem in THM services because machines are running kinda slow

[radiant moat]

hello

pls am having problem on downloading vpn always shows 404 and i dont know the other way of downloading the file

ok

Uh-oh, this page has been lost in the matrix.

[mellow epoch]

hello there

i am having issue in payment for subscription

tried 3 cards on paypal didnt work : (

email to whom?

thm or paypal?

all are working fine

[radiant moat]

yes but cant open vpn

its has downloaded successfully but cant open in my terminal

[mellow epoch]

how can i contact mod or anyone in THM

alright

[radiant moat]

yes

am using external terminal

i hope i can use that

am not using thm

yep i have

ok

root@richard-eME728:/home/richard# sudo openvpn hackthebox4.ovpn
Options error: In [CMD-LINE]:1: Error opening configuration file: hackthebox4.ovpn
Use --help for more information.

home/downloads

ok

[sharp bison]

TryHackMe

Verify your TryHackMe Profile!

https://help.tryhackme.com/community/discord

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[radiant moat]

ok

[mellow epoch]

tried again still cant process

[radiant moat]

home/richard/Downloads this was my home dir

[mellow epoch]

they say you need to have a international card and i have 3 tf

[radiant moat]

ok

[mellow epoch]

alright

[radiant moat]

thanks

nooooo stuck

aww!!!

i used to open vpn at my formal site but don't understand

i have open a file from hackthebox recently using this command but don't know why am stuck with thm

am opening ctf of Mr Robot lol

yes

[mellow epoch]

😦

[civic violet]

tried downloading the openvpn file configuration but it would always redirect me to this page

okay

says i have to wait 10 seconds to install the file after regenerating @light vale

do i have to wait 2 minutes?

it worked

i changed vpn server and regenerated

whoever is experiencing this same issue, just change vpn server and regenerate and then download after 10seconds.

when i go to openvpn's website to download it, it says site cant be reached @light vale

[light vale]

you want to download the gui for windows?

[civic violet]

im on mac

i need to install gui from thier website

but it says the site cant be reached.

[maiden pumice]

i am unable to work on thm machine

i have download my openvpn ticket and connected to it
but when i am pinging there is 100% packet loss any solutions

[light vale]

Just tried and for me it works, it popups the file for download, see if you have some popup blocker or something, can't think of anything else, i'm not that experienced on macs

[radiant moat]

mine is working now Alek

[light vale]

glad to hear it 😄

[radiant moat]

just connecting

ok

[civic violet]

tried accessing the site in 3 different browsers but it still doesnt work

refreshed multiple times and still..

[light vale]

hmm yeah sounds weird, something blocking the download or the popup, i don't really know how does it work on mac, maybe somebody from the mod team could be of help, really don't know what to say more than restart, multiple browsers that you already did, maybe firewall but i don't think so..

For me it works...

But i'm on Win

[civic violet]

your on windows

[light vale]

yep

[civic violet]

i just need to configure that openvpn file via terminal

in macos, i cant open it directly because it doesnt open with mac

[light vale]

I don't understand sorry, don't you want to download the OpenVPN for MacOS? It has the .dmg file extension, doesn't Mac open it?

[naive dust]

How can I seek a refund from THM? Got billed accidentally

[light vale]

Check this link #site-support message

[light vale]

Sorry i may have misunderstood the location from where you are trying to download the the OpenVpn gui, have you checked this room, you can download the gui directly from here...
https://tryhackme.com/room/openvpn
Check the connecting with MacOS section task 3

[naive dust]

Awesome thanks

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @light vale

[civic violet]

The thing is i need to access to tbe open vpn website to install the dmg file and i cant do that since the site for me doesnt work.

[civic violet]

I did, it doesn't work, there is a macos instruction to download it in this room, when you click download file it redirects you to the openvpn site.

[light vale]

Ohh understood, well maybe somebody who is more experienced could help when they see the problem, let's wait for a bit..

[clever junco]

Hi Team, I am unable to connect to THM oven from my machine,yesterday I hit couple of times wrong password and I believe my ip or access is blocked, would you please check and help.
In case it's not that , I wonder why I am unable to connect,not sure though, but would appreciate if someone will help me .

[naive dust]

I know if you put the wrong password in multiple times you get locked out, but it's timed. I haven't heard of anyone being banned.

[scenic talon]

how can i change my discord account old @naive dust

[clever junco]

Thank you , I will wait then

[scenic torrent]

Gave +1 Rep to @lament valve

[naive dust]

Do you have a countdown timer after a failed login?