Footprinting - Oracle TNS - Installing ODAT

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I had a good amount of trouble getting ODAT working for this module. After some trial, error, and using resources like the web and ChatGPT, I ended up with the following:

#!/bin/bash

# Update and install system dependencies
echo "Updating package lists and installing required packages..."
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y git libaio-dev alien build-essential python3-dev libssl-dev libaio1 python3-venv

# Clone the ODAT repository
echo "Cloning ODAT repository..."
git clone https://github.com/quentinhardy/odat.git

# Navigate to the ODAT directory
cd odat || { echo "Failed to navigate to ODAT directory"; exit 1; }

# Create a Python virtual environment
echo "Creating Python virtual environment..."
python3 -m venv odat_env

# Activate the virtual environment
echo "Activating virtual environment..."
source odat_env/bin/activate

# Install required Python packages (cx_Oracle, pycryptodome, passlib, scapy)
echo "Installing Python dependencies inside the virtual environment..."
pip install cx_Oracle pycryptodome passlib scapy

# Manually install libnmap from GitHub
echo "Cloning and installing libnmap..."
git clone https://github.com/savon-noir/python-libnmap.git
cd python-libnmap
pip install .

# Go back to the ODAT directory
cd ..

# Verify installation
echo "Verifying ODAT installation..."
python3 odat.py --help

echo "ODAT installation completed."

# Deactivate the virtual environment
deactivate

To run it:

# Start virtual environment
source odat/bin/activate

# ... do stuff

# Deactivate virtual environment
deactivate

I hope this is helpful, and if I missed something obvious about my first attempts to install this via the HTB script, please clarify.

God speed :slight_smile:

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My friend… I’ve been wrestling with this for almost three days now (I have limited time to study, just 2 hour chunks each day) and, thanks to you, I can FINALLY put this mystery to rest. We must have had the same problem, complaints about not installing python packages system-wide. Thank you. SO MUCH.