Backtrack 5, VNC and XRDP

Just working on my project that I will be unveiling prior to Tech Ed(and will mostly be giving demonstrations of whilst there) and I discovered a rather annoying bug in Backtrack 5.

I was attempting to set up XRDP which is simply a neat little wrapper for VNC and for the life of mean, whenever I connected, either with my RDP client using XRDP or with a VNC client through any of the VNC server options, I couldn't launch any of the tools included with Backtrack 5, for example, when trying to run airodump-ng, you would get the error: "/bin/sh airodump-ng: command not found". I hacked away at various bash profiles and settings, various system settings and pulled my hair out for days; still I couldn't get anything to work.

I knew this worked on Backtrack 4, so what could the possible errors be?

1. Backtrack 5 is based on Ubuntu 10.04, Backtrack 4 was based on 8.04
2. Both versions I was running were 32bit
3. Backtrack 4 came with a VNC option by default, maybe the guys had pre hacked this together to work?
4. I was running the KDE version of Backtrack 5, and well Backtrack 4 was an older version of KDE

Out of interest sake, I tried the Gnome version Backtrack 5; and it appears to work.

So, if you want to use VNC (and XRDP) use the GNOME version of Backtrack 5!

Wireless Cracking Notes

So, the first "full" post for this blog will be just some simple notes about wireless cracking.

Firstly:

• Use backtrack 5 however backtrack 4 has some better support for older cards
• Gerix Wifi Cracking suite makes life pretty easy
• If you are going to be capturing for a continued period, for example: if you are trying to get IVS for a WEP access point and it just isn't being kind and handing them over to you; make sure you use wither a persistent usb install with a large amount of disk or use a installed version of back track.
• I am currently using the following card: USB Realtek
• The following directional yaggi is also brutal: 25GB Yaggi
• Don't use your antennas as drum sticks!

Stay in tune for some details on a neat network tap that is a royal pain to find!