Eclectic Security

In this post I’m going to share about a tweak on the Metasploitable virtual machine. The confconsole add-on will improve the appliance administration tasks, setting a static IP address ,Requesting DHCP, Rebooting the appliance, Shutting down the appliance using a nice and friendly ncurses interface.

Thanks again to the turnkey crew www.turnkeylinux.org and the metasploit/metasploitable developers.

Installation:

Login in the  metasploitable box  with msfadmin:msfadmin and make #sudo -su

Download the gpg key:
wget http://code.turnkeylinux.org/turnkey-keyring/turnkey-release-keyring.gpg
apt-key add turnkey-release-keyring.gpg

Open the sources file:
vim /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the turnkey repository:
deb http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/ubuntu hardy main
deb http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/ubuntu hardy universe

apt-get update
apt-get install confconsole

from the usage.txt file you can you can tweak the confconsole
vim /etc/confconsole/usage.txt

Reboot the metasploitable box, and enjoy .-)

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