Appendix A. Configuring Your Target Machines
The best way to learn to use the Metasploit Framework is by practicing—repeating a task until you fully understand how it is accomplished. This appendix explains how to set up a test environment to use with the examples in this book.
Installing and Setting Up the System
The examples in this book use a combination of Back|Track, Ubuntu 9.04, Metasploitable, and Windows XP. Back|Track serves as our vehicle for exploitation, and the Ubuntu and Windows systems are our target systems.
First create an unpatched Windows XP Service Pack 2 installation to test the examples presented throughout this book. The Back|Track and Ubuntu 9.04 virtual machines can be run on a host machine running Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux ...
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