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ENABLING CLOUD C2 AS A SERVICE ON BOOT WITH SYSTEMD
Note: From version 3.0.0 onward all, Cloud C² editions (Community, Edition, Teams) use the same binary. Filenames for Cloud C² will differ from example - however all parameters remain the same.
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# Enabling Cloud C2 as a service on a Linux-64 host with SystemD
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# Builds on Hak5 episodes 2701 and 2702 with credit to Void-Byte
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# https://forums.hak5.org/topic/50283-u...
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# Expects Cloud C2 Community edition has run once before, generating c2.db
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#
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# Move Cloud C2 binary.
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sudo mv c2_community-linux-64 /usr/local/bin
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# Create directory for database file
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sudo mkdir /var/cloudc2
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# Move database file
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sudo mv c2.db /var/cloudc2/
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# Create systemd service file.
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sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/cloudc2.service
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# Replace parameters as necessary for your instance
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[Unit]
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Description=Hak5 Cloud C2
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After=cloudc2.service
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[Service]
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Type=idle
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ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/c2_community-linux-64 -hostname example.com -https -db /var/cloudc2/c2.db
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[Install]
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WantedBy=multi-user.target
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# Reload, enable on boot, start and inspect the newly created Cloud C2 service
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sudo systemctl daemon-reload
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sudo systemctl enable cloudc2.service
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sudo systemctl start cloudc2.service
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sudo systemctl status cloudc2.service
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