This repository provides the Docker image that runs a GNOME desktop on top of Athena OS. The desktop is accessible via RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) clients such as Remmina, FreeRDP, Microsoft Remote Desktop (for macOS).

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• Discord - realtime support / chat with the community and the team.
• GitHub - view the source for all of our repositories.

Athena OS container has been developed in order to be run also by podman. The choice to use podman comes from its advantages over docker, one of most important: security.

According to your preference, install docker and docker-compose packages or podman package for your Linux environment.

In case you are using podman, edit /etc/containers/registries.conf and add:

[registries.search]
registries = ['docker.io']

in order to allow podman to search for images in Docker Hub.

Athena OS container allows you to learn and play on Hack The Box platform. It is possible to access to Hack The Box by using your App Token. Retrieve your App Token from the Hack The Box website in your Profile Settings.

You can run the container by docker-compose (recommended) or docker run.

The docker-compose.yml file should have the following content:

version: '3.4'

services:
  athena-rdp:
    image: athenaos/rdp
    cap_add:
      - cap_sys_admin
      - ipc_lock
      - net_admin
    cgroup:
      - host
    devices:
      - /dev/net/tun
    ports:
      - "127.0.0.1:23389:3389"
      - "127.0.0.1:8022:22"
    shm_size: '2gb'
    sysctls:
      - net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=0
    volumes:
       - /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup
    tmpfs:
      - /run
      - /tmp
    restart: unless-stopped

Run the container by:

sudo docker-compose run athena-rdp

docker run -ti \
  --name athena-rdp \
  --cap-add CAP_SYS_ADMIN \
  --cap-add IPC_LOCK \
  --cap-add NET_ADMIN \
  --cgroupns=host \
  --device /dev/net/tun \
  --shm-size 2G \
  --sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=0 \
  --volume /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup \
  --publish 23389:3389 \
  --publish 8022:22 \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  docker.io/athenaos/rdp:latest

or

docker run -ti --name athena-rdp --cap-add CAP_SYS_ADMIN --cap-add IPC_LOCK --cap-add NET_ADMIN --cgroupns=host --device /dev/net/tun --shm-size 2G --sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=0 --volume /sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup --publish 23389:3389 --publish 8022:22 --restart unless-stopped docker.io/athenaos/rdp:latest

In case you exit the container and need to re-enter, run:

docker exec --user athena -ti athena-rdp /bin/zsh

In case the container is not running, run:

docker start athena-rdp

For stopping the container, run:

docker stop athena-rdp

For deleting the container, run:

docker container rm athena-rdp

You can run the container by podman run.

podman run -ti \
  --name athena-rdp \
  --cap-add NET_RAW \
  --cap-add NET_ADMIN \
  --device /dev/net/tun \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  docker.io/athenaos/rdp:latest

or

podman run -ti --name athena-rdp --cap-add NET_RAW --cap-add NET_ADMIN --device /dev/net/tun --restart unless-stopped docker.io/athenaos/rdp:latest

Podman will automatically replicate /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname files of your host. For preventing this, add --no-hosts argument to the podman run command above.

In case you exit the container and need to re-enter, run:

podman exec --user athena -ti athena-rdp /bin/zsh

In case the container is not running, run:

podman start athena-rdp

For stopping the container, run:

podman stop athena-rdp

For deleting the container, run:

podman container rm athena-rdp

athena:athena

Once you retrieved your HTB API Token from your Hack The Box website profile settings, you can set the HTB API Token in two ways:

• By connecting by RDP to the GUI as explained in the next section, open terminal and run htb-update (or clicking HTB Update button in Athena Welcome)
• If you don't want to connect to the GUI environment, run the following commands:

  sudo mkdir -p /run/secrets
  sudo nano /run/secrets/htb-api
  <store your HTB API Token in htb-api file and save it>
  htb-play
  

You should now be able to access your full-featured GNOME desktop using the RDP client of your choice. For example, using Remmina along with the install of freerdp package:

remmina -c rdp:https://127.0.0.1:23389

When you run Remmina, expand its window and on the left side press the Toggle dynamic resolution update icon button for automatically resizing the display.

For making the keyboard shortcut effective on the connected environment, on the left side press the Grab all keyboard events icon.

For copy and paste text from the host to the environment, copy a string, then, on the left side, click on Tools icon button and select Keystrokes and Send clipboard content as keystrokes.

Clone this repository, edit Dockerfile and then run docker build as usual:

git clone https://github.com/Athena-OS/athena-rdp-docker.git
cd athena-rdp-docker
docker buildx build --tag 'athenaos/rdp:latest' .

Use --no-cache option:

docker build --tag 'custom-athena-rdp:latest' --no-cache .