LEAP

LEAP: Local Enumeration And Privesc. Framework for 4061CEM project.

What is here?

Not much.

This project requires you to generate most of the actual code yourselves. To start with, each team should work on a fork of this repository together to define the common features of the individual pieces of functionality - we'll refer to them as "plugins". This is a kind of design by contract, which you can read about here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/design-by-contract. Some things to decide might be:

• Will each piece of functionality be in a separate file or subdirectory?
• Will your team have a naming convention? For example, maybe all windows enumerators will begin with "wEnum_", linux with "lEnum_" and so on.
• What will each function return or display? Will each function print out to the user? Or will it return a block of text in a string? Or a list of lines? Or maybe a dict with some meta-info (version, plugin name, plugin author, date, time, etc.) and text data? Or JSON? All are possibilities.
• Will you have a standard set of parameters to be passed in? Or can each plugin have a different set of required parameters?
• What plugins will be implemented? Who will be the author?

You should document these decisions here in the README.md file. Once you are all happy with this, stage, commit and push it to your shared fork. Then, each team member can begin writing their own tool by creating an individual fork. Naming your tool something sensible and uniquely identifiable at this point will be very helpful. If you all keep the simple name "LEAP", you will find it tricky to remember which repository you are working on later. You can call your own fork whatever you like.

When the individual tools are working and each team member has their own plugins working, it is their responsibility to liaise with the other members of the team to import the other plugins. Each team member should create a fork of the repositories of each of their team-mates, integrate their plugins and submit a pull-request for each fork.

So, if the team members are A, B, C and D, we will have one fork to start with in which the team collaborates on defining the basics. Then A will create a personal fork of the shared repository and work on their tool and plugins. When they're done, they will create forks from their team-mate's repositories. Let's call them LEAP-B, LEAP-C and LEAP-D. A will then port their plugins to each of these new forks and submit pull requests for them to be merged into the repositories of their teammates.

Why?

This might seem overly complex, but it's not. In reality, this is one of the common ways people collaborate using git. You can fork any public project and work on your own copy without needing to ask permission or get added to the original repo, then if you want to recommend your changes to the original author you create a pull request and they can decide to merge it into their work or not.

In this project you will be getting experience of working on a project and receiving multiple pull-requests from contributors and at the same time, contributing to the repositories of others.