Totp-Ssh-Fluxer will take Security By Obscurity To The Next Level. Some people change their SSH port on their servers so that it is slightly harder to find for bots or other nasties, and while that is generally viewed as an action of security through obscurity it does work very well at killing a lot of the automated logins you always see in /var/log/auth.log
However what if we could go take this to a ridiculous level? What if we could use TOTP codes that are normally used as 2nd factor codes to login to websites to actually know what port the sshd server is listening on?
For this, I present totp-ssh-flux, a way to make sure your sshd port changes every 30 seconds, and possibly causing your adversaries a small period of frustration.
Demo:
What you can see here is my phone (using a generic TOTP client) generating codes, that I can then use as the port to SSH into on a server.
The software behind it is fairly simple, It runs in a loop that does the following
The neat thing is, because this is done in PREROUTING
, even if the code expires, established connections stay connected.
Installation
You will most likely find more up to date instructions on the totp-ssh-flux project readme
Beware, currently I would not really recommend running this software, it was only written as a joke.
At the time of writing the project is just a single file, You will need to install golang and then go get
and go build
Run the program as root ( it needs to, sorry, it’s editing iptables )
Upon first run, the program will generate a token for the host in /etc/ssh-flux-key
( you can use the -keypath
option to change that ) and you can input that into your phone or other clients.
You can confirm it works by running watch iptables -vL -t nat
and waiting for the iptables rules to be inserted and removed.
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