Cowrie was exposing an SSH daemon on port 22 alongside the telnet service
even when COWRIE_SSH_ENABLED=false, contaminating deployments that did not
request an SSH service.
New implementation mirrors the SSH service pattern:
- busybox telnetd in foreground mode on port 23
- /bin/login for real PAM authentication (brute-force attempts logged)
- rsyslog RFC 5424 bridge piped to stdout for Docker log capture
- Configurable root password and hostname via env vars
- No Cowrie dependency
Collector and mutator watcher subprocesses were spawned without
start_new_session=True, leaving them in the parent's process group.
SIGHUP (sent when the controlling terminal closes) killed both
processes silently — stdout/stderr were DEVNULL so the crash was
invisible.
Also update test_services and test_composer to reflect the ssh plugin
no longer using Cowrie env vars (replaced with SSH_ROOT_PASSWORD /
SSH_HOSTNAME matching the real_ssh plugin).
- HTTP: configurable server_header, response_code, fake_app presets
(apache/nginx/wordpress/phpmyadmin/iis), extra_headers, custom_body,
static files directory mount
- SSH/Cowrie: configurable kernel_version, hardware_platform, ssh_banner,
and users/passwords via COWRIE_USERDB_ENTRIES; switched to build mode
so cowrie.cfg.j2 persona fields and userdb.txt generation work
- SMTP: configurable banner and MTA hostname
- MySQL: configurable version string in protocol greeting
- Redis: configurable redis_version and os string in INFO response
- BYOS: [custom-*] INI sections define bring-your-own Docker services
- Stealth: rename all *_honeypot.py → server.py; replace HONEYPOT_NAME
env var with NODE_NAME across all 22+ service templates and plugins;
strip "honeypot" from all in-container file content
- Config: DeckyConfig.service_config dict; INI [decky-N.svc] subsections;
composer passes service_cfg to compose_fragment
- 350 tests passing (100%)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
dtagdevsec/mailoney and dtagdevsec/elasticpot are unavailable on Docker Hub
("manifest unknown"), causing the entire deployment to abort and cascade-
interrupt all other image pulls.
- Convert smtp and elasticsearch to build services with custom Python
honeypots: smtp emulates Postfix ESMTP (EHLO/AUTH/MAIL/RCPT logging),
elasticsearch emulates ES 7.17 HTTP API (logs recon probes like /_cat/,
/_cluster/, /_nodes/, /_security/)
- Both use ARG BASE_IMAGE so they participate in per-decky distro variation
- Add _compose_with_retry() to deployer: 3 attempts with exponential backoff
(5s → 10s → 20s) for transient network failures; permanent errors
("manifest unknown", "pull access denied") are detected and not retried
- Update test_services.py and test_composer.py: smtp/elasticsearch moved
from UPSTREAM_SERVICES to BUILD_SERVICES (314 tests passing)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
