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Some network printing support

Submitted by blackt1ger on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 21:30

I can understand the difficulty of placing print drivers on a LiveCD, but not being able to print these scan reports out are a big pain.

I run the LiveCD in VMWare, and since all my boxes are Win-based, I don't have ftp, etc. The only solution I can find, off-hand is to upload to file space provided by Yahoo or Live Spaces, etc.....

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#1Submitted by mtesauro on Fri, 03/12/2010 - 09:47.

Re: Some network printing support

Thanks for posting your suggestion!
I agree about the inability to print reports.  First a couple of work-around suggestions and then some back story.

#1 If you are already using VMware, try using the VMware hard drive install of the Live CD.  For the new WTE beta, the VMware install is a full Ubuntu 9-04 desktop + the tools from the Live CD.  Unfortunately, if you're using the AppSec EU release, the CD and VM installs are exactly the same.

#2 Start up an ssh server on the Live CD / VMware install and bring the reports to your Linux box that way.  From Windows, WinSCP can be used to pull your reports off of Linux.  Depending on what release you have, here's your options:

=> AppSec EU:  There's an undocumented script in /usr/bin called sshd-start which will start sshd (the server) on that release.  I used that to move .lzms over to that release and test them.  Simply run that as root which you already are like:

# sshd-start

It will also remind you to set a password for root as its randomized at boot.

=> WTE Beta:  Since its Ubuntu, you'll need to do an apt-get command to install the ssh server:

$ sudo apt-get install openssh-server

The owasp user password is also owasp.  That will be the server installed and running under Ubuntu.

Back Story:
The reason the Live CD is so minimal (in terms of what's installed) is that we had a devil of a time getting the final ISO size small enough to actually fit on a CD.  The first try at this was a 870 MB+ ISO image.  To get it "slim" enough, we actually started with an Ubuntu server install (no GUI/Gnome) and added packages from there.  That is how the OWASP WTE Beta Live CD was created.  We'll look at the size increase for adding cups (the printing mechanism in Linux) for the next ISO we generate.

Hope that helps.  Reply if you have more questions.