2.4 Metasploit Issue/Question

[hdm at metasploit.com (H D Moore)]

One way to work around this is by passing a writable directory path to the 
-C parameter of msfweb. This can crop up if you install the Framework as 
one user and then try to run it as another (yes, I suck at win32 
packaging). Check the permissions of the Program Files\Metasploit 
Framework\home directory and make sure your current user has write 
access.

-HD

On Saturday 06 August 2005 10:52, mmiller at hick.org wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 08:10:04AM -0400, Thomas Brennan wrote:
> > - Question
> > I am testing the 2.4 Metasploit framework on XP SP2 as a platform and
> > have RTFM'ed the supplied doc.
> >
> > The issue I have is when launching MSFWeb it fails and provides the
> > following message:
> >
> > "+----=[ Metasploit Framework Web Interface (127.0.0.1:55555)
> >
> > ERROR: the specified cache directory is not accessible: Permission
> > denied"
>
> This sounds like a cygwin permissions problem.  msfweb attempts to
> create a directory (%HOME%/.msf/msfweb).  It sounds like access is
> denied to the %HOME%/.msf directory for one reason or another.  Are you
> using a previously existing cygwin install or are you using the one
> that came packaged with Metasploit?  Also, did you install Metasploit
> as a privileged or non-privileged user.  I seem to recall that having
> been an issue in the past, but it may just be my memory playing tricks
> on me.