Installing Metasploit 4.0.0 on Apple Mac OS X 10.6.8

The installation instructions are quite well documented on the Rapid7 documentation site[1]; But in my usual style of duplicating data on the Internet, I have documented my efforts below. The key requirements of Xcode and macports was already addressed on this particular machine :)

Note: It's important to ensure that any anti-virus (AV) software is temporarily disabled and appropriate scanning exceptions added, this is to prevent the AV from quarenteening the exploits and payloads that some with metasploit.

1. sudo bash
2. port selfupdate
3. port install ruby19 +nosuffix
4. echo $PATH # Ensure that /opt/local/bin appears before /usr/bin, else edit ~/.bash_profile file and source it; ". ~/.bash_profile" or "source ~/.bash_profile"
5. port install mysql5-server
6. gem install mysql
7. cd /opt
8. wget http://updates.metasploit.com/data/releases/framework-4.0.0.tar.bz2
9. bunzip2 framework-4.0.0.tar.bz2
10. tar xvf framework-4.0.0.tar
11. cd msf3
12. svn update
13. ln -s /opt/msf3/msf* /opt/local/bin/

References:

1. https://community.rapid7.com/docs/DOC-1037
2. http://www.metasploit.com/download/

Runtime on notebooks

Got an Apple MacBook Pro towards the start of the year. Issue was that closing the lid only puts the machine in stand by mode which still consumes power, so I wasn't getting as long a runtime as I would on my old HP nx6120 with a travel battery.

A Google search led me to Todd Huss's[2] page below. This identified the pmset[1] command as being quite useful. I followed the instructions and now have the MacBook hibernating when I close the lid. Since then I have been asked by a number of colleagues about this, so thought I better document it here.

I rebuilt the old HP nx6120 to run Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Again noticed that I wasn't getting reasonable runtime, instead of the usual 8-10 hrs, I only got around 3-4hrs. A discussion with a colleague led me to Linux Laptop Tools. Again some "Googling" led to the Ubuntu power management[3] which seemed to increase the runtime.

References

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pmset
2. http://gabrito.com/post/hibernate-with-the-macbook-pro
3. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerManagement