From: Karmil Asgarally (kasgaral@emirates.net.ae)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2004 - 01:09:47 EST
HI
Question: Are u planning to install linux as a guest OS from which to
initiate your pentest? If yes, then....
You might want to try a Fedora install as a vmware guest os. It's working
excellent for me.
However, I recently tested PHLAK which is a linux distro mainly meant for
pentest and loaded with a lot of security tools. Installing PHLAK as a
vmware guest does not even require drivers to be installed.
With PHLAK, you basically have 2 options to run. It can be run as a live CD
or you can dump the whole OS on a HDD (My setup is dump everything inside a
vmware guest).
Check out www.phlak.org
Cheers.
-----Original Message-----
From: Maxime Rousseau [mailto:m.rousseau@cgi.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 01:16
To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
Subject: VMWare and which linux distro?
Hi List,
I think a good portion of you guys use a VMWare-Linux setup when doing
pen-test (for many reasons). The question i would like to ask is, which
linux distribution works best for this specific purpose ? Obviously you
dont need a distribution with many fency Xwin features and preferably
good networking tools built-in.
I am uncertain about which would work best in this particular scenario
and i really cant think of anyone better then you guys to give me
insight.
Thanks,
-Maxime
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Sat Apr 12 2008 - 10:53:45 EDT