Keeping access to the target system is a desired feature, especially when it comes to law enforcement agencies or by the red teams to test defenses deployed on the target. We can achieve persistence through Metasploit on a Linux server using the sshkey_persistence module from the post/linux/manage directory. This module adds our SSH key or creates a new one and adds it to all the users who exist on the target server. Therefore, the next time we want to login to the server, it will never ask us for a password and will simply allow us inside with the key. Let's see how we can achieve this:
We just need to set ...
