2.4 Metasploit Issue/Question

[mmiller at hick.org (mmiller at hick.org)]

On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 08:10:04AM -0400, Thomas Brennan wrote:
> - Question
> I am testing the 2.4 Metasploit framework on XP SP2 as a platform and
> have RTFM'ed the supplied doc.
>
> The issue I have is when launching MSFWeb it fails and provides the
> following message:
>
> "+----=[ Metasploit Framework Web Interface (127.0.0.1:55555)
>
> ERROR: the specified cache directory is not accessible: Permission
> denied"

This sounds like a cygwin permissions problem.  msfweb attempts to
create a directory (%HOME%/.msf/msfweb).  It sounds like access is
denied to the %HOME%/.msf directory for one reason or another.  Are you
using a previously existing cygwin install or are you using the one that
came packaged with Metasploit?  Also, did you install Metasploit as a
privileged or non-privileged user.  I seem to recall that having been an
issue in the past, but it may just be my memory playing tricks on me.