Customizing global settings

Before customizing the console, we need to know the current (default) global settings that are being applied to the console:

1. This can be done using the show options command when Metasploit Framework starts:

2. We can change the prompt (the msf text) from these settings. To change the prompt and prompt character, we can execute the set Prompt and set PromptChar commands:

3. We can even use some extended formats to configure more advanced prompts, as follows:

The following are the extended formats that can be used:

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Literal           Description

%D           Current directory

%U           Current user

%W           Current workspace

%T           Current timestamp

%J           Current number of jobs running

%S           Current number of opened sessions

%L           Local IP

%H           Hostname

%red           Set the color to RED

%grn           Set the color to GREEN

%yel           Set the color to YELLOW

%blu           Set the color to BLUE

%mag           Set the color to MAGENTA

%cya           Set the color to CYAN

%whi           Set the color to WHITE

%blk           Set the color to BLACK

%und           Underline

%bld           Bold

 

The same formats can be used to set up prompt characters as well.