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The Metasploit database
From the course: Metasploit Essential Training
The Metasploit database
- [Lecturer] So let's talk about the Metasploit database. Metasploit contains a PostgreSQL database that allows for the storage of information. You can use this database to keep information and stay organized during penetration or security testing. There are three main steps to using the Metasploit database. First is to start up the server service. Then, to create the database which will be creating the MSF database. Then you need to initialize that MSF database. Optionally, you can start organizing the different movements made with Metasploit by using workspaces. This gives you the ability to save different scans from different locations, networks, and subnets into different workspaces. To set up the Metasploit database on Linux, we're first going to start the service itself and we can use the system control command for that one. We'll then use msfdb init to initialize the database. We can then view any existing workspaces,…
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