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Scenario and Rule clarifications for the 2013 National Cyber Defense Competition.

February 10, 2013

Admin Access to the Shell Server

So the rules say that admins need to be able to sudo on the shell server. What do they need to be able to do?
The administrators (dave and susie) must be able to use sudo to run ALL commands as root.
February 9, 2013

NTP Server Now Available

Is the white team running an NTP server available to the blue teams to use? This would help us coordinate our logs, events and activities with white teams records of events.

Yes! An NTP server is now available at time.cdc.net, or 199.100.16.100 (the proxy server).

On Windows, right-click the clock, choose “Adjust date/time”, then click on the “Internet Time” tab.

On *nix systems, install ntpdate to easily synchronize with our server:

ntpdate time.cdc.net

You can also install an NTP daemon to sync automatically upon startup. See the documentation associated with your distro for more information.

February 8, 2013

Can you provide KMS information so we can keep our Windows Servers from locking up in three days?

ISU does not have a KMS server that licenses Windows Server installs. The ISOs we provided for 2008 R2 will be good for 30 days without entering a key. Just to verify this, I accessed your two active Windows VMs (RDP and your DC rebuild); both report that they are set to 30-day expiration. In the event that those do start complaining sooner, you can always re-arm as well using: slmgr.vbs /rearm

February 8, 2013

Shell Server Test Script now available!

The script to test your shell server is now available from inside the ISEAGE network at http://blue.cdc.net/compile_test.sh

You can grab and run this easily via command line (assuming you’ve set up your network interface properly):

wget http://blue.cdc.net/compile_test.sh
chmod +x compile_test.sh
./compile_test.sh

Please note the difference between the java runtime (java) and java compiler (javac), as you will need both to function correctly!

The script automatically generates and deletes source files to run its tests. If you’d prefer to use these files for troubleshooting, simply set the PRESERVE variable near the beginning of the script to 1.

If you’d like to examine it on your local machine, it is also available here: compile_test.sh_.txt Remove the “_.txt” ending before running it.