msfd (tab-completion)

[lex001 at gmx.de (Dennis Günnewig)]

Okay, in a bigger environment with more than a handful sensors, another way may be interesting:

o Offering a separate plugin which
        x offers different commands / changes different commands to control a msf-Daemon remotely
        x connects to sensors via a ssh-tunnel
        x sends normal msf-commands over the ssh-tunnel to control the sensor

o Adding another db_table with information about the MSF-Daemon of the sensors (id, name of the sensor, ip, port)

Advantages:
o Managing your whole MSF-Infrastructure whithin one msf-instance --> no change beetwen different msf-instances, no use 
of CTRL+Z or similar ways

Disadvantages:
o more complex


I think of the following scenario:

linux# ./msfconsole
msf > load mgt_sensors
msf > help

mgt_sensors
=============
sensors_add             - add a new sensor to the list
sensors_del             - delete of an entry in the list
sensors_show            - show list of available sensors
sensors_connect         - connect to a sensor
back                    - saves the environment, connection stays open
exit                    - closes connection to the sensor
[...]

msf > sensors_show

id      sensor_name     sensor_ip       sensor_port
---     -----------     -------------   -----------
1       dmz             192.168.111.1   55554
2       lan             172.16.111.1    55554
[...]

msf > sensors_connect 1
Building up SSH-Tunnel, please wait
....
msf s:dmz > [...]
msf s:dmz > back #saves the environment, connection stays open
msf >
msf > sensors_connect 1
msf s:dmz > [...]
msf s:dmz > exit #closes connection to the sensor
SSH-Tunnel closing, please wait
....
msf >

-deg

H D Moore schrieb:
> Tab completion isn't supported over the the msfd telnet console. If there 
> is enough interest, this is something we can look into.
>
> -HD
>
> On Friday 09 February 2007 17:11, Dennis G?nnewig wrote:
> > i just try to use the msf-daemon (msfd). It works quite fine except of
> > missing tab-completion-support and missing support of the
> > special-function-keys - eg. up, down, left, right, back. It seems to
> > me, that the daemon is not able to interpret the keycodes (correctly).
> > What I've to do to get things working or is it up to somebody familiar
> > with ruby to change some sources of the framework?
> >
> > If there any posts concerning this issue I've overseen, do not hesitate
> > to send me a link to this post(s). :-)