sshow(8)

sshow8

Ssh traffic analysis tool

Usage

sshow [-d] [{-i interface | -p pcapfile}] [expression]

Overview

sshow analyzes encrypted SSH-1 and SSH-2 traffic, identifying authentication attempts, the lengths of passwords entered in interactive sessions, and command line lengths.

The following advisory describes the attacks implemented by sshow in detail:

http://www.openwall.com/advisories/OW-003-ssh-traffic-analysis.txt

Options

-d

Enable verbose debugging output.

-i interface

Specify the interface to listen on.

-p pcapfile

Process packets from the specified PCAP capture file instead of the network.

expression

Specify a tcpdump(8) filter expression to select traffic to sniff.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0–Arch

-p since Debian 4.0 (Etch).