Using Hydra: Receiving 'select: Bad file selector' error

[WyseArse]

Hello,

I have the de-ICE 1.100 disc and bt3 on VMWare. I have succesfully used nmap against the de-ICE system and checked out their faux webpage. When I use Hydra to try and access the ssh port I receive the error 'select: Bad file selector'. It was suggested on a different forum that this may be caused by an error in the path name but my pathnames are correct. Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.

[Ho4Sno]

Try adding the -V switch. I haven't figured out what is causing the "Bad file descriptor" error but at least you'll see that Hydra is working.

[Scott112]

Have you tried reducing the timing on Hydra
as this seems to be the cause of most problems with hydra
for some reason the tool works too fast sometimes and all kinds of weird error messages come up try reducing it to 8 and see if it works then

[Thorn]

Scott112's right. You have to play with Hydra's parameters to get it to work right, and the timing can be critical.

BTW, the De-ICE site has it's own forums, and you can see what other people have done on the 1.100 and 2.100 disks if you get stuck. There are even full spoilers if you get really stuck.

[dzark]

having same error message - anyone figured it out?

[dzark]

i think it was too many threads/tasks..

I was running hydra(gtk) with -36, and i set it to 8~14 and it's happy now.. sometimes i can push a bit higher, sometimes not..

hydra 127.0.0.1 ssh2 -l username -p password -t 8

or

'Tuning' tab on GTK -> number of tasks

hope it helps someone else