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Mastering Metasploit

You're reading from   Mastering Metasploit Discover the next level of network defense with the Metasploit framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463166
Length 440 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Preface 1. Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit FREE CHAPTER 2. Reinventing Metasploit 3. The Exploit Formulation Process 4. Porting Exploits 5. Testing Services with Metasploit 6. Virtual Test Grounds and Staging 7. Client-side Exploitation 8. Metasploit Extended 9. Speeding up Penetration Testing 10. Visualizing with Armitage

Globalizing variables in Metasploit

Working on a particular range or a specific host, we can always use the setg command to specify the LHOST and RHOST options. Setting the options with the setg command will set the RHOST or LHOST options globally for every module loaded. Hence, the setg command eliminates the use of setting up these specific options repeatedly. We can should make use of the setg command instead of options such as LPORT, RPORT, and payload. However, different services run on different ports and we may need to alter the payloads as well. Hence, setting up options that do not alter from one module to another is a better approach. Let's have a look at an example:

Globalizing variables in Metasploit

We assigned RHOST with setg command in the preceding screenshot. We can see that no matter how many times we change the module, the value of RHOST remains constant for all modules and we do not need to enter it manually in every module. The get command fetches the value of a variable from the current context...

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