This is the official repository for the Cowrie SSH and Telnet Honeypot Docker effort. It contains Dockerfiles that you can use to build Cowrie Docker images.

Cowrie is a medium interaction SSH and Telnet honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and the shell interaction performed by the attacker.

Cowrie in Docker is set up to use an 'etc' volume to store configuration data. Create cowrie.cfg inside the etc volume with the following contents to enable Telnet in your Cowrie Honeypot in Docker

[telnet]
enabled = yes

If you want to map local directories into the docker image, you need to make sure that the direcories cowrie expects already exist, or it will start failing in a never-ending loop.

mkdir -p var/log/cowrie var/run