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Hands-On Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit
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Hands-On Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit

by Harpreet Singh, Himanshu Sharma
May 2020
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
12h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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Setting up a database connection in Metasploit Framework

One of the coolest features of Metasploit Framework is the use of backend databases in order to store all the content related to a target. Follow these steps to set up the database when running MSF:

  1. Check whether the database is connected to MSF using the db_status command from the console, as follows:
  1. As shown in the preceding screenshot, the database is yet to be connected. We can connect to the database either by using a database config file, a one-liner command, or by using a RESTful HTTP API data service (a new feature of MSF 5). By default, there won't be a database.yml file, ...
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