# Medusa Parallel Network Login Auditor :: Wrapper

JoMo-Kun / jmk "AT" foofus "DOT" net

The purpose of the wrapper module is to allow the user to execute arbitrary scripts while taking advantage of Medusa managing hosts/users/passwords. Two sample scripts have been included in the wrapper directory.

This is a work in progress... The module currently uses fork() which isn't ideal. Not sure if I can kick off a thread and redirect STDIN/STDOUT for just that thread...

The initial goal for this module was to test RDP servers using rdesktop. A patch to rdesktop 1.4.1 has been included in the /misc/rdesktop directory. This extends the dictionary patch from cqure.net to work with the Medusa wrapper STDIN method. It should be noted that rdesktop doesn't appear to be able to use command-line passwords when connecting to Windows 2000 hosts. Windows 2003 and XP worked fine during testing.

The following example shows one way to use rdesktop with the wrapper module:
`medusa -M wrapper -m TYPE:STDIN -m PROG:rdesktop -m ARGS:"-u %U -p - %H" -H hosts.txt -U users.txt -P passwords.txt`
One possible method for hiding the graphical output from rdesktop:
`% Xvfb :97 -ac -nolisten tcp &
% export DISPLAY=:97
`
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