pspy

Monitor linux processes without root permissions

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Monitor linux processes without root permissions

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2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2

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almatabata·Oct 13, 2023

I love it in the context of hacking actually. When working on HackTheBox machines or other CTFs you sometimes need to deploy tools onto the machine like these: https://github.com/jpillora/chisel https://github.com/DominicBreuker/pspy When you deploy them they just work. Compare that to compiled C++ code you often face issues with the deployment in my experience. And production machines usually do not ship compilers.

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sasas·Mar 14, 2023

Literally using this right now on a pentest looking for privesc in some Linux boxes - the great thing about this tool is it's a shell script that's portable and does a significant amount of enumeration - big time saver. Feel as if it's better then the most other privesc script/tools out there for Linux. My next go-to tool after Linpeas is pspy which "allows you to see commands run by other users, cron jobs, etc. as they execute" [1] [1] https://github.com/DominicBreuker/pspy

In LinPEAS

Iwillgetby·Nov 11, 2019Submission

5 Links that shows how pspy works (github.com/DominicBreuker/pspy)

5 links that show how the github project pspy works to help a pen tester to take over a Linux server. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSRCEOQQJ4E&t=2735 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf8p49IzEEA&t=1880 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Paajc2Dupms&t=2058 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2-te8n2WbY&t=2180 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKq4cwBfH24&t=1780 https://github.com/DominicBreuker/pspy

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