Setting up metasploit under Archlinux.

Hi folks, let me share my expirience of setting up metasploit under Archlinux.

First of all you need to install metasploit-svn and postgresql packages:

# yaourt -S metasploit-svn postgresql

Then you need to set up your postgresql installation right. Don't forget to run postgresql (I like to do it oldschool):

# /etc/rc.d/postgresql start

and you could add it to your DAEMONS in rc.conf.

After that I created database msf3 from postgresql user shell:

$ createdb msf3

Because of lack of some install script, you need to create file in /etc/profile.d/ (I named it metasploit.sh, you can call it whatever you want, just be sure to make it executable) and put this in there:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/src/metasploit
export MSF_DATABASE_CONFIG=/usr/src/metasploit/database.yml

$MSF_DATABASE_CONFIG must point to YAML file (this file contains database configuration, my sample file you can find here). As you can see, I've put it to /usr/src/metasploit/, since it must be accessable by armitage and msfrpcd (that's what this file for). This variables will be initialized on reboot, or you can run:

# . /etc/profile.d/metasploit.sh

to get it right on fly.

Next, you need to run msfrpcd:

# msfrpcd -a 127.0.0.1 -U user -P pass -S -f

'-a' to bind to localhost, '-S' to turn off SSL, '-f' to foreground server, '-U' and '-P' is for user and password respectively. Username and password are arbitrary, just remember to enter the same values in armitage start-up window.

After all, we ready to go. Just type in:

# armitage

enter username and password, press 'Connect' and enjoy your hackerish things:). Good luck!