Registration Website

Setup Machine

• Register a new domain (for instance, ictf.love).
• Find a free machine with a public IP address (IP address for instance: 192.35.222.159).
• Make the domain points to your public IP address.
• Create a new API token on Sengrid and authenticate your domain following this guide
  • https://sendgrid.com/docs/ui/account-and-settings/how-to-set-up-domain-authentication/
  • The domain you are authenticating MUST match the one you are using to send emails with the Sendgrid Python API.
• Clone https://git.seclab.cs.ucsb.edu/ictf/ictf-framework/ on your machine and checkout on branch ictf2020_reg_website
• Modify the sendgrid API_KEY in ictf-framework/ictf_website/mailer.py
• Install the dependencies list in ictf-framework/ictf_website/deps_install.txt
• Install the python packages in ictf-framework/ictf_website/requirements.txt

Setup MySQL

• Login as root
  • mysql -u root -p
• Create new user/database/table
  • CREATE USER 'ictf'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'user_password';
  • CREATE DATABASE ictf_db;
  • • CREATE TABLE teams ( id INTEGER NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, email TEXT NOT NULL, name TEXT NOT NULL, country TEXT NOT NULL, url TEXT NOT NULL, academic INTEGER NOT NULL, flag_token TEXT, email_confirmed INTEGER, email_confirmed_on DATETIME, email_verification_token TEXT, PRIMARY KEY(id) );
  • grant all privileges on ictf_db.* to 'ictf'@'localhost';
  • EXIT
• Verify you can login with the new user and query the table teams.

Setup Flask-Website

• Deploy the website following this
  • link
• In the ictf_website.service configuration (/etc/systemd/system/ictf_website.service) remember to export the following env-vars:
  • export ICTF_WEBSITE_ADMIN_USER=ictf
  • export ICTF_WEBSITE_ADMIN_PASSWORD=user_password
  • export SENDGRID_API_TOKEN=<NEW_SENDGRID_TOKEN>

Useful Commands

• sudo systemctl stop ictf_website
• sudo systemctl start ictf_website
• sudo systemctl restart nginx
• sudo less /var/log/nginx/error.log | show nginx errors
• sudo journalctl -u ictf_website | Show log of the flask application
• sudo journalctl --unit=my.service -n 100 --no-pager
• MySQL Commands: *
  • show databases;
  • use ictf_db;
  • delete from teams; | drops every row in the table teams.
• curl ifconfig.co | get your public IP.
• watch -n 5 python current_teams.py
• mysqldump ictf_db > ictf_db.bak | dump sql backup