Sparta is a great interface for performing our scanning and collecting our information in one place. Before we begin, let's make a change to Sparta that will prevent it from running all its tools automatically. As we saw in the previous recipe, Sparta will do a great deal of scanning and launch a number of tools based on what it finds. This may not always be the approach we want to take, especially if we are trying to be stealthy. To make this change, open a terminal window and type vi /usr/share/sparta/sparta.conf. Change the line enable-scheduler-on-import=True to enable-scheduler=False and save:
The following steps will ...