liveCD honeypot?

[Lithium381]

The other day i was reading about "honeypots" and thought it would be interesting to see one in action at home... is there a live-cd honeypot available? I have an old computer that doesn't have a harddrive but i've booted live-cd's of Fedora and such on that i would like to use for this. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Not that I know your idea wouldn't work, but I do have another alternative that might. ESXi on a thumbdrive might be another possibility. This way, you could load a variety of operating systems. If your laptop isn't supported by ESXi, you could still use a thumbdrive to boot a *nix OS, and store the settings, etc.

Or you could setup another system with how you want the honeypot configured, then use something like 'remaster sys' to create a live CD of that configuration. (I use remaster sys for doing backups of systems currently, and it works amazingly well).

Good luck.

 

[Lithium381]

Not that I know your idea wouldn't work, but I do have another alternative that might. ESXi on a thumbdrive might be another possibility. This way, you could load a variety of operating systems. If your laptop isn't supported by ESXi, you could still use a thumbdrive to boot a *nix OS, and store the settings, etc.

Or you could setup another system with how you want the honeypot configured, then use something like 'remaster sys' to create a live CD of that configuration. (I use remaster sys for doing backups of systems currently, and it works amazingly well).

Good luck.

I've never heard of that before, i simply make a clean install of how i want the system to be with all the programs i need and such,and remaster sys will make a live-cd distro of it? That sounds too good to be true!