CTFa

A platform to manage and organize a jeopardy-style CTF.

Dummy data setup

In order to try the project and make it run with dummy random data, cd in the project folder then run :

python setup_data.py

If everything went fine you should be presented with a similar result :

This script is made to generate a populating script for the H2 database. The only thing left to do is to run the project.

Note : this script creates random and semi-random data. If the results in the scoreboard are not good enough just run this script again and reload the server

Starting the server

Using IntelliJ IDEA

The easiest way to start the project is to open it with IntelliJ IDEA. Then as there is already a .idea folder with the configuration you only have to click on the green arrow to start the server :

Once you see those lines :

you are ready to go!

Using the CLI

Using the command line interface, you need to have maven installed. cd into the project folder. Then you need to clean the build folder, package the app and then run the server :

mvn clean
mvn package
java -jar target/ctfa-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

Once you see those lines :

you are ready to go!

Reaching the frontend

Once the server (backend) has started you may reach the index page on the following link : http://localhost:9090/.

And as the project uses an H2 database you may access the h2 console on the following link: http://localhost:9090/h2/. You then can login using the following parameters :

Driver class: org.h2.Driver
JDBC URL: jdvc:h2:./bdd
User Name: sa
Password: (empty)

The h2 console allow the sysadmin to check the content of the database.

Default accounts

Every account on this project have the following password : 123456789.

Moreover there is two other accounts to try the rights system with an user and an admin account with the following credentials :

username: user
password: user

username: admin
password: admin