SHONEYPOT(8)

📦 version 0.4.6, in ubuntu jammy

💖 SHONEYPOT(8) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, we're reading a manpage from the System Manager's Manual and honestly? it's giving vintage chaos and i'm obsessed.

✨ NAME ✨

thpot — a Tiny honeypot to setup simple (and fake) services 🍯🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

thpot [service name]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so like, this page documents the thpot command, but only briefly, bestie. don't come for me about the length, i'm just the messenger.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution, because the original program does not have a manual page of its own. Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below. 📖✨

Now the actual tea: thpot is a program that enables you to fake services by configuring it to be executed through either xinetd or inetd. Like, you're literally catfishing the internet with fake services. 💅

And all the connection attempts and sessions to simulated services are logged under /var/log/thpot. every single one. no cap. it's watching. 👀

💅 OPTIONS 💅

This program takes as argument the name of the service which is being simulated. It can be anyone of:

  • shell
  • ftp
  • http
  • mssql
  • smtp
  • pop3
  • ssh

If the service name is none of these, a null response is returned (but the session is logged) 😭 like okay it didn't recognize you but it still wrote your name down in its diary, that's so real.

🦋 FILES 🦋

  • /var/log/thpot — Location of the connections attempts and sessions to the honeypot services. 📝
  • /etc/thpot/thp.conf — Configuration for the honeypot. ⚙️
  • /usr/share/thpot/ — Miscellaneous files and functions used by thpot. 🧚

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 🫶 iconic behavior, honestly.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one was dated September 17, 2003, and it comes from the System Manager's Manual — aka the SHONEYPOT(8) header you saw at the very top. stay hydrated, log your sessions, and don't let the honeypot catch you slipping 💖✨🎀

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