On Tuesday 21 February 2006 22:49, Levenglick, Jeff wrote:
snipsnipnip
Auditor and backtrack are among the best live "attack" distros.
Phlak seems to be thebest known in certain "circles".
pentoo and nubuntu are upcoming distros that show a lot of promise
What I've been wondering about lately is that, when you install these to
disk, updating the whole distribution (if it is possible) seems to break most
of the functionality.
Updating the toolchain isn't much of a problem, but updating the OS seems to
be nearly impossible for most of these (mind you, i haven't tested pentoo
yet.)
There seems to be a lot of focus on running the kit as root (which is horrible
if you want to create a "attacking host" somewhere in your network), which is
understandable from the live distro point of view.
One of the positive things about aditor, iwhax and backtrack is that they
contain the "proper" menustructure, where the menu follows the general
structure of a pentest (discovery, enumeration .....)
On my personal wishlist would be a "near ready" distro containing all the
proper tools that is harddisk installable and easily (or automagically)
updated.
Of course I can do this myself, but it would be nice if it all came bundled
within one single distro :)
Kind regards
Enchanter_tim
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