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Sniff WiFi traffic with LessLinux
LessLinux is used as a foundation for quite some security and forensic distributions. Thus more features for analyzing network traffic get added. Recent builds include “hostapd” and “brctl” for creating ad-hoc hotspots that can be used to monitor the traffic of selected WiFi enabled devices like smart TVs or smartphones. I usually use a notebook […]
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Announcing “big fat full” builds + fork me on GitHub
I am proud to announce a new series. This is called “big fall full” – codenamed “Jabba”. It solves two purposes: Provide a simple way to include all packages that are built in the second stage in the live ISO Give the most simple starting point for building LessLinux and derived distributions The second big […]
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Building LessLinux – stage03, the final ISO
So now you are ready building the chroot environment – then it is time to assemble the final ISO. To do this you need an overlay containing some configuration files for the bootloader. I packaged such an overlay for the current LessLinux Search and Rescue: lesslinux-search-and-rescue-uluru-20110202-155012-overlays-en.tar.bz2. You’ll find more recent overlays here: http://download.lesslinux.org/overlays/, but when […]
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Building LessLinux – stage02
Besides the switch to SQLite there are other big changes regarding the build of stage02, which is the population of the chroot environment: LessLinux now supports tracking of dependencies after building packages. This allows to define the order of packages to build. As a consequence of the dependency tracking it is now also possible to […]
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Building LessLinux – stage01
Many changes were added since my first description of how to build LessLinux. There are two major changes that are worth noting most: We switched from MySQL to SQLite3 as database during build LessLinux is self containing now, this means you can use LessLinux to build LessLinux to build LessLinux… The stage01 build of LessLinux […]
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Presenting the “Grandma Mode”
Do you also have some relatives that always ask for “family support”: When you come to their house, you find a totally f***ed up Windows XP machine with tons of spyware and you’ll get to hear “I did not do anything”. The worst part of it: While you do the work, they keep talking at […]
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Netbooting LessLinux: NFS support
After adding support for netbooting LessLinux by downloading the ISO image via HTTP/FTP I can announce support for NFS boot. For this feature you just need to add nfs=192.168.1.1:/dir/containing/iso In this case, the NFS share is mounted read only (and no locking takes place), then all ISO files down to depth 2 are searched, loop […]
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Booting LessLinux via network
As mentioned previously, support for netbooting LessLinux was recently introduced. In builds from 20100528-000000 it works stable and can be used in production environments. So please test the new function with this build: lesslinux-search-and-rescue-uluru-20100528-114807.iso Currently for netbooting a DHCP and PXE server are required, a HTTP daemon should be present, although it is possible to […]
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Accessing LessLinux with VNC
As I mentioned before, “LessLinux Search and Rescue” is intended to be a versatile live system for typical service jobs that have to be done in mixed environments. To make work easier, a service system should be net-bootable and accessible with a remote desktop application. In builds starting with timestamps after 20100526-000000 I included support […]
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Do it yourself: Build stage03
In the third stage the final ISO image is assembled. To assemble the ISO you need an overlay with some fixes and the bootloader configuration. Eventually the bootloader configuration can be automatically generated – but not for now. Since assembling stage03 is basically calculating dependencies, copying files from the chroot environment, compressing the squashfs containers […]