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Gather GRUB Password

Created
10/22/2019

Description

This module gathers GRUB passwords from GRUB bootloader config files.

Author(s)

  • Garvit Dewan <d.garvit@gmail.com>
  • Taeber Rapczak <taeber@rapczak.com>
  • Shelby Pace

Platform

BSD,Linux,OSX,Solaris,Unix

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

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