How does metasploit locate the database.yml file in backbox?

[nebula]

As the title already says, how is Metasploit locating the database.yml file in Backbox 3.05?

[ZEROF]

Hi,

Check our wiki : http://wiki.backbox.org/index.php/Metasploit and check forum (search) topics.

Cheers !

[nebula]

It indeed connects to psql, but my issue seems different:

Enable the database on startup

cat > ~/.msf4/msfconsole.rc
db_connect backbox:[password]@127.0.0.1:5432/metasploit4

I intended to remove the package reposity and replace it against a git reposity.

Sadly, when i do so, armitage stops working. (It breaks when establishing the db connection and complains that it is unable to locate database.yml. (This happens as sudo, root and even when launching ./ from folder, the proposed fix didnt solved the issue.

Updating /etc/profile as proposed in different other places didnt worked too.
(

echo export MSF_DATABASE_CONFIG=/opt/backbox/config/database.yml >> /etc/profile

)

Maybe, as armitage requires root theres another place/solution i miss out.

[ZEROF]

Hi again,

[password] need to be replaced with your own password. 2nd, if you try to use non supported version, then i can't help you, because i don't know how metasploit version from your new install will work with our system. I can make small video to show you how to set all, but i don't see what you can learn from it, because i will only use our wiki informations.

And pls check other forum topics with same issue. If you can't start metasploit at all, then try to reinstall.

Cheers and good luck !

[nebula]

To nail it down, running metasploit form git has the advantage for me to be able to switch between commits.

Concerning the issue itself. If metasploit in backbox doesent utilize ~/.msf4/msfconsole.rc or /etc/profile , where is this information stored?

However, my guess, the error has something todo with root priviledges. So there might be a similar file in root like /etc/profile. Ill figure that later on today if nobody in meantime comes up with the solution.

[weVeg]

have you tried to search what you need here:
/opt/backbox/msf/data

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backbox/msf [ l+ | grep .yml                                     master ] 9:49
config/database.yml.example
config/database.yml.travis
data/mime.yml
test_lab.yml
test_targets.yml


l+ is an alias for recorsive listing....

[nebula]

Well, the issue was missed out files from a previous installation as it look now

what would have avoided the issue:

$

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locate /usr | grep msf 

# /usr/local/bin/$msf links where outdated.

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sudo bash -c 'for MSF in $(ls msf*); do ln -s /opt/backbox/msf/$MSF /usr/local/bin/$MSF;done'


of course also set /etc/profile with the database.yml location

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export MSF_DATABASE_CONFIG=/opt/backbox/config/database.yml

and finally

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cat > ~/.msf4/msfconsole.rc
db_connect user:password@127.0.0.1:5432/msfdb

Anyways, got my backbox with GIT metasploit.