Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Background command

While carrying out post exploitation, we may run into a situation where we need to perform additional tasks, such as testing for a different exploit or running a privilege escalation exploit. However, in order to achieve that we need to put our current meterpreter session in the background. We can do this by issuing the background command, as shown in the following screenshot:

We can see in the preceding screenshot that we successfully managed to put our session in the background and re-interacted with the session using the sessions -i command followed by the session identifier.