More predictable than /dev/stdin, which is usually a symlink to
/proc/self/fd/0 or /dev/fd/0, but the feature is not guaranteed to be
present.
This isn't *terribly* useful, but it can be. -x is recommended, but it
doesn't allow for ERB directives. This is mostly for hax.
MSP-11671
Add command line option --defer-module-loads to msfconsole. It will
stop `Msf::Ui::Console::Driver` from calling
`framework.modules.init_module_paths` AND
`framework.modules.refresh_cache_from_database`. This flag is only
meant to speed up msfconsole boot when modules do not need to accessed,
such as during cucumber testing of command help or command line options.
MSP-11672
Pass `'DeferModuleLoads' => false` to `Msf::Simple::Framework.create` so
that `framework.modules.init_module_paths` is only called once (directly
in `Msf::Ui::Console::Driver#initialize`) instead of twice (in
`Msf::Simple::Framework.create` and `Msf::Ui::Console::Driver#initialize).
Sometimes msfconsole takes a little while to start.
This adds a fairly common ASCII spinner to the startup sequence.
I haven't spec'ed it, and the code organization isn't great, so consider
this PR more of a cry for help than something immediately landable.
That said, it works for me.
MSP-11153
Test the following paths in order and only return them if the path
exists:
1. MSF_DATABASE_CONFIG environment variable
2. ~/.msf4/database.yml
3. <project>/config/database.yml
On August 15, shuckins-r7 merged the Metasploit 4.10.0 branch
(staging/electro-release) into master. Rather than merging with
history, he squashed all history into two commits (see
149c3ecc63 and
82760bf5b3).
We want to preserve history (for things like git blame, git log, etc.).
So on August 22, we reverted the commits above (see
19ba7772f3).
This merge commit merges the staging/electro-release branch
(62b81d6814) into master
(48f0743d1b). It ensures that any changes
committed to master since the original squashed merge are retained.
As a side effect, you may see this merge commit in history/blame for the
time period between August 15 and August 22.
MSP-10955
`Msf::Ui::Console::Driver#initialize` doesn't call
`framework.db.connect` if it can't find the the `database.yml`, but when
using `msfpro`, the connection is already established, so the console
doesn't need to know where the database file is and should just run the
migrations so that `framework.db.migrate` can be set and
`framework.db.active` will return `true`.
MSP-9606
Catch LoadError in config/application.rb when trying to require
'active_record/railtie` so that end-users can run without any of the
database gems installed. NOTE: you can't run in the development or
test environment without the database because factory_girl needs
ActiveRecord.
[#44034071]
ActiveRecord::Migrator has a class attribute, migrations_paths,
specificially for storing a list of different directories that have
migrations in them. ActiveRecord::Migrator.migrations_paths is used in
rake db:load_config, which is a dependency of db:migrate, etc. that is
passed to ActiveRecord::Migrator.migrate. Since migrate supports an
array of directories, and not just a single directory, there is no need
to merge all the migrations paths into one temporary directory as was
previously done.
When we know the module we're creating is definitely a payload, don't
bother looking in the other module sets.
Also removes an exception message that gets ignored anyway because the
exception class has a hard-coded #to_s
[#36737359]
The merging of reload_module and the various load_module methods
resulted in the module loading from disk, but because the Hash entry in
the module manager was not deleted before on_module_load was called, the
newly reloaded module was logged as an ambiguous module name instead of
a reload. In order to report the reload errors correctly, I determined
that module_load_error_by_reference_name should really be
module_load_error_by_path. I eliminated faild in favor of this new name
since failed was just calling the attribute and the attribute's name is
clearer about the format of the data.
Tested by run rexploit and then exiting over and over with
ms08_067_netapi. When I messed up the file so it couldn't load, by
adding `inclde Exploit` (note mispelling of `include`), it reported the
error to msfconsole. When I removed the bad line and added a puts
"RELOADING <n>", where I kept incrementing n and saving the file, the
new number appeared during each rexploit.
[#36737359]
Refactor the behavior of loading symbolic modules from cache by renaming
methods so it's clearer what they do and ensure that cached modules from
Fastlibs and directories can both be loaded, which was not previously
possible since the demand_load_module only called load_module_from_file.
for convenience when you don't need/want a full resource file, you just
want to run something quick
example usage:
# say you have a saved config ready to go on load
./msfconsole -s 'exploit -j'
# you can run multiple commands too
./msfconsole -s 'set ConsoleLogging true\nshow options'
Brent Cook