metasploit-gs/Payload-Rename-Justification.md

The Issue

Many payloads perform the same task, yet have different names. This results in confusion and a bad new-user experience. Specifically, ARCH_CMD payloads differ greatly from their shellcode-derived brethren. For example, the most heavily used payload is windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp; the equivalent in ARCH_CMD land is cmd/unix/reverse, which gives no indication that the session type will be a shell.

The Proposal

I propose we rename all the aberrantly-named payloads to match the convention. Specifically:

• cmd/unix/reverse -> cmd/unix/shell_reverse_tcp_telnet
• cmd/unix/reverse_bash -> cmd/unix/shell_reverse_tcp_bash