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Service System V Persistence

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Disclosed
Jan 1, 1983
Created
Oct 16, 2025

Description

This module will create a service via System V on the box, and mark it for auto-restart.
We need enough access to write service files and potentially restart services.

Some systems include backwards compatibility, such as Ubuntu up to about 16.04.

Targets:
CentOS
Debian
Kali 2.0
Ubuntu
Note: System V won't restart the service if it dies, only an init change (reboot etc) will restart it.

Verified on Kali 2.0, Ubuntu 10.04

Author

h00die

Platform

Linux,Unix

Architectures

cmd, x86, x64, armle, aarch64, ppc, mipsle, mipsbe

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/linux/persistence/init_sysvinit
    msf exploit(init_sysvinit) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(init_sysvinit) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(init_sysvinit) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(init_sysvinit) > exploit
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