Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Getting the username and process information

Once we land in the target system, it is important to know the current user and the process that we broke into. This is extremely important information because we will require it for privilege escalation and migration to a safer process. Let's see how we can figure out the username and process information:

We can see that we found out the username, which is mm, by issuing the getuid command, and we found out the current process ID that spawned the meterpreter session by issuing the getpid command. Let's see which process our meterpreter session is sitting in by issuing the ps command:

As we can ...