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Installing Metasploitable 2
Metasploitable 2, the purposefully vulnerable Linux operating system that we will practice exploiting, is available as a VMWare virtual machine. As we did with the Kali VM above, all we need to do is download the Metasploitable 2 VM image, unzip it and open it with VMware Player.
1. Download Metasploitable 2 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/metasploitable/files/Metasploitable2/)
2. Unzip the file and place it in the folder of your choosing (I used my Basic VM folder).
Then just open Metasploitable 2 in VMWare by starting another copy of VMWare Player.
➢ Then click, “Player”, “File”, “Open”
➢ Navigate to the ‘Metasploitable.vmx’ file, select it and click, “Open”
It will now show up in the VMware Player Menu.
3. Now go to “Edit Virtual Machine...
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Password Cracking with Kali LinuxPublished in: Feb 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781835888544
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