Great work by Kevin, and thanks for the heads up Don, downloading now.

Downloaded last week but could not get passed the login until today, thanks to Ed. I am running it in VM, it boots up and works well but when u try to restart the VM it crashes.

VJ

There's a good review/partial how-to of Samurai on last week's pauldotcom.com podcast.

Aside from the web testing tools on this distro, they did something really cool:
they put a local wiki to take notes with while you are pen-testing, then you can export the wiki when you are done.

Hi Akolyte,

I've run Samurai in VMWare for a few different jobs, working with both the liveCD (booted on VMWare guest) and the official VM image (version 0.6). Ran fine for me in both NAT and Bridged VMWare networking modes without issue.

Can you provide any additional info to help diagnose your problems?

• Static or DHCP IP?
• VMWare mode tried?
• Can you reach your gateway IP?
• Can you reach other machines on the network?
• Can other machines on local network reach your Samurai virtual machine?

Not sure if this still applies though.

You need to use the "sudo" command for root privileges.  Hope this helps.

great spot! i had a little training/workshop the other day from IBM on Rational Appscan and was impressed by the features. i was wondering if there were any good open source alternatives for web app scanning so i guess i will have to try samuraiWTF!