Mini-Pentoo Live CD

Michael Zanetta announced a few days ago the release of Mini-Pentoo 2006.1: "Added WiFi injection support for Madwifi-ng, Hostap, wlan-ng, rtl8180, prism54/GT; integrated portagedb so no need for the module during install; created an MPlayer module; added some Firefox extensions (Live-Http-Headers, Temper-data, ShowIP, No-Referrer); updated Nessus, Yersinia, bluediving, metasploit, nmap, kernel (2.6.16); added Kismet auto-configure script based on airmon-ng, Pentoo installer, Wifitap, tcpdump, Bluetooth stack smasher....". You can read the full release announcement here.

Mini-Pentoo is a Gentoo-based mini Live CD with the Enlightenment desktop and a selection of tools designed for penetration testing.

What is Pentoo?

Pentoo is a penetration testing LiveCD distribution based on Gentoo. It features a lot of tools for auditing and testing a network, from scanning and discovering to exploiting vulnerabilities. Let's have a look at some features of Pentoo Live CD:

￭ Nessus, Metasploit and Fingerprints db upgradable ! You can put them in RAM or on a usb stick. ￭ You can save stuff on a usb pen-drive or a harddisk like : /etc, /root, Nessus plugins, SecurityForest's Exploit Tree and all fingerprints (the last only in pentoo) ￭ It's modular (mpentoo), you can customize it by adding modules just like in Slax (only in mpentoo for now). ￭ It is faster : based on the Gentoo distribution, all the code as been optimized. I choosed to optimize the code for pentium3 cpu as I think that intel based cpu are more used than AMD's ones. Of course, this will not break the compatibility with AMD proc, it will just run faster on pentium-3 or 4 CPUs.

Software included?

￭ arpwatch ￭ dsniff ￭ ethereal ￭ ettercap ￭ hping ￭ ike-scan ￭ nessus ￭ nmap ￭ traceroute ￭ iptables ￭ ipsorcery ￭ aircrack-ng ￭ airsnort

To see the full list of software included read here.

Here are some screenshots of Mini-Pentoo: