psydT0ne Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 fresh install of windows 7 x64 downloaded metasploit community edition (armitage is bundled) installed went to Framework Update updated all ok Created an account using their web browser GUI and activated using a community license. Closed browser. started armitage and was asked to connect to the database.... changed the details in armitage to the port that metasploit install said it was on 3790 entered the logon details for the account i created in the webgui. armitage attempted to connect and then.......nothing....box closed... no errors...nothing. i really haven't got a clue beyond this.... any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbyb1980 Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Armitage seems to give a lot of people problems. Unless you're specifically working in Windows for development purposes or something else, I think it might be a little less problematic on a linux based OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 You have Java installed? Armitage is Java based. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BugsB Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Also, armitage runs off of postgre SQL. Verify that is running, if it is installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydT0ne Posted June 3, 2012 Author Share Posted June 3, 2012 Thankx for all the replies, dudes. I'm just going to go with backtrack in a virtualbox and see how that pans out. Winblowz is just too meh. cheers :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydT0ne Posted June 3, 2012 Author Share Posted June 3, 2012 BackTrack 5r2 in virtual box VM... ran msfupdate ran msfconsole tried to run armitage now i get : org.postgresql.util.PSQLException ERROR: relation "workspaces" the fix for this? run msfconsole.......WHICH I ALREADY FUCKING DID! ran it again.......SAME FUCKING ERROR> RAAWRARRWRASRARRRRRRRRRRR!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 (edited) armitage, if you mistakenly updated it to latest, will require metasploit 4 branch. Everything in BT5R2 works out of the box, but if it gets hosed, install the metasplut run file manually, which will give you the latest metasploit and latest armitage. Once that is done, everything will work as it should, but if you start metapsloit without doing the updates, you would be ok there too, just running version 3 by default. In the R2 build I think both are installed side by side, wcih causes some of the issues. For me, I instlaled MSF4 manually, and always chang edirectory to the /opt/metasplit folder to start everything form there. Also, when instlaling, let it instlal metasploit as a service to start on boot, so when starting armitage, it will start everything for you if it isn't already. Notes. Besfore doing the metasploit install, in bt5r2(32 bit, 64 still bit wonky) do apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, and apt-get dist-upgrade, then manually install metasploits latest fromt he run file off their website and all should be good. If you don't update anything, then it will work out fo the box, but with out dated msf modules. Also, change to the directory where the new installation is and do an svn update from there, I skip msfupdate, always seems to hose things for me for some reason. Edited June 3, 2012 by digip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydT0ne Posted June 4, 2012 Author Share Posted June 4, 2012 thank you very much mate, i appreciate the time you took to explain it to me. i shitcanned the vm and i'll start again, (cool thing about vms:) ) you're defintely correct about things working from the box, as armitage and msf all work as they should when using the "live" backtrack... i'll let you know how i went. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 (edited) By the way, I think msf3 and 4 are installed together in bt5, which might be part of the confusion on why shit gets borked. For instance, I have a native install of BT5R1 on my laptop. Doing the svn update updated metasploit, but then armitage would fail due to the newer branch of metasploit 4 and later. This required me to manually install metasploit 4.xxx whatever the latest is. Once that was done, Armitage worked again. You can use it without armitage, but I like to see the machines al in a gui and when they light up once compromised. I'm a noob from the console with metasploit, so I use Armitage as a cruch, but it also helps me learn the commands since you can see in the console what to type. Kind of teaches you at the same time. http://www.fastandeasyhacking.com/faq Edited June 4, 2012 by digip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psydT0ne Posted June 5, 2012 Author Share Posted June 5, 2012 Well i successfully got metasplut and armitage to work on the vm install of backtrack5 r2. Now i'll work on actually using it on my home network and then updating everything. Never majorally into linux, let alone backtrack...but i thought fuck it, its about time. thanks again for your help :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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