Re: Noob questions

[Tod Beardsley <todb () packetfu com>]

Incidentally, on the PR questions, we've got a short do's and dont's here:

https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Just FYI. tools/msftidy.rb should catch most super common naming / style
convention mistakes (things like the underscores in names, etc).



On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib () gmail com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a few questions for which I couldn't find the answer online...
>
> What is the privileged flag? The documentation says it should be used when
> privileges are required to run the exploit. Is this on the local metasploit
> side, or on the server side? And if on the local, how do I know if an
> exploit requires privileges?
>
> With regards to the payload size, is it possible to specify it as one of
> the options? The reason being that the exploit I'm preparing is reliable
> with smaller payloads, but one shot when using a larger payload.
>
> Finally, regarding the commit "etiquette", can I rename modules in pull
> requests? The reason being that there is another module which is named
> productName_vulnerability, and the module I want to contribute exploits the
> same flaw in the same product but for later versions and using a different
> method. I was thinking about naming both productName_method_vulnerability.
> I've also made a few changes to the existing module to make it work in more
> versions, so my pull request would not be only the rename and the new
> module.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Regards
> Pedro
>
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