HEADER pentestmonkey Taking the monkey work out of pentesting /HEADER main NAVIGATION Site News Blog Tools Yaptest Cheat Sheets Contact /main NAVIGATION CONTENT Start: Left Panel This is a follow-up to a topic I touched on breifly before when I talked about the problem of trying to use the SSH client when you don’t have a TTY.  I was recently in a position where I got an interactive shell on a box, discovered the root password but was unable to get root because I couldn’t run “login” or “su”.  Both of these required a TTY in order to work. I don’t present a definitive solution in this problem (if you have one please sent it in!).  However I discuss a couple of approaches to getting a TTY… Post-exploitation activities during a pentest may involve using “su” to try and log into other local accounts, or using “ssh” to log into other hosts. If you’re lucky eno...