Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Rephrasing the equation

If you are scratching your head after working on the preceding module, let's understand the module in a step by step fashion:

1. We've created a CredentialCollection object that takes any type of user input and yields credentials. This means that if we provide USERNAME as root and PASSWORD as root, it will yield those as a single credential. However, if we use USER_FILE and PASS_FILE as dictionaries then it will take each username and password from the dictionary file and will generate credentials for each combination of username and password from the files respectively.
2. We've created scanner object for SSH, which will eliminate any manual command usage and will simply check all the combinations we supplied one after ...