===== Common Box Creation Resources ===== Windows reset firewalls: netsh advfirewall reset netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off Windows reset admin: net user Administrator /active:yes net user Administrator Password1! Windows → ENABLE SMB! Linux clear history: (we are purposely not removing apt logs and such) rm -f /root/.viminfo rm -f /root/.bash_history rm -f /root/.zsh_history Linux add users: for user in $(cat users.txt); do useradd -m -s /bin/bash $user; echo "$user:Password1!" | chpasswd; done Linux set static IP for before Ubuntu 22: /etc/network/interfaces auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.11 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.1 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1 Linux set static IP for Ubuntu 22 and later: /etc/netplan/00-ethernet.yaml network: version: 2 renderer: networkd ethernets: : dhcp4: false dhcp6: false addresses: - 192.168.0.10/24 routes: - to: default via: 192.168.0.1 nameservers: addresses: [192.168.0.1] Apply changes: sudo netplan apply Linux find and replace recursively find . -name '*.txt*' -exec sed -i 's/user1/user2/g' {} + Sudoer NOPASSWD %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL Classic PAM backdoor # Ubuntu 20.04 cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security/; mv pam_deny.so pam_deny_original.so; cp pam_permit.so pam_deny.so