Setup using single static machine

Setup

Requirements

• An Operating System (currently only tested on Ubuntu, Debian and OpenBSD)
• Python
• Twisted (python-twisted)

Running

Edit honssh.cfg to your liking and start by running:

./honsshctrl.sh START

honsshctrl.sh is a shell script (provided by Black September) that runs HonSSH in the background using twistd. Use 'honsshctrl.sh HELP' for more options.

You can also run it manually with more configuration options. For example, to run in the foreground use:

twistd -y honssh.tac -p honssh.pid -n

Troubleshooting

Error: TypeError: generate_private_key() got an unexpected keyword argument 'backed'

Twisted developers made a typo from the 16.0.0 version, you have to replace the word backed to backend at the line 121 of the file /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twisted/conch/scripts/ckeygen.py.

Related issue: https://github.com/tnich/honssh/issues/85

Error : No module named honssh after installed the requirements using pip

Try adding the PYTHONPATH to the Linux vars:

export PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:/folder/to/honssh"

Related comment: https://github.com/tnich/honssh/issues/73#issuecomment-257159325

The connection hangs and reply with no output

1. Copy the SSH banner using telnet (example: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.7p1 Debian-5+deb8u3):

• telnet 127.0.0.1 22
• exit

2. Put it into the config file honssh.cfg at the var ssh_banner =. Related comment: https://github.com/tnich/honssh/issues/81#issuecomment-257154859

Error : no matching key exchange method found. Their offer: diffie-hellman-group1-sha1

Upgrade the requirements using pip:

pip install twisted cryptography --upgrade

Related comment: https://github.com/tnich/honssh/issues/73#issuecomment-257158700