A honeypot is a service that runs on a server and simulates an insecure or incorrect configuration. The idea is to attract attackers with a supposedly vulnerable service and observe their intrusion attempts.

Glastopf [1] is such a honeypot, written in Python. It pretends to be a web server with a hugely vulnerable configuration. Unfortunately, most major distributions do not include a package for Glastopf. This prompted me to post a detailed installation guide as an Open Document text [2].

Raspberry Honey

After installation – in my case on a Raspberry Pi – the following command starts the server in the foreground:

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