Team VMs for the 2012 MIT/LL CTF are now available via remote access (SSH). The VMs are substantially similar (though not entirely identical) to the one you were given at the first lecture, and has the following installed and configured:
- Ubuntu
- Apache
- MySQL
- Wordpress
- OpenSSH
- ntpd
The firewall (ufw) will be enabled and only allow SSH and NTP inbound connections.
To get access to your team's VM, your team captain needs to e-mail us an SSH pubkey. Once received, we will confirm receipt by e-mailing all team members with the fingerprint of this key and instructions on how to access the VM.
Since this is the simplest way for us to give you access, please e-mail us an SSH pubkey even if you do not intend to access the VM before the competition.
You can generate an SSH key pair using the following command on a Linux/Unix system:
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "email@your_school.edu"
This will create two files: id_rsa (private key) and id_rsa.pub (public key). Please send us ONLY the public key, and make sure your private key is appropriately protected and backed up.