QoL Feature Request

[RamadhanAmizudin]

I'd like to suggest a few quality-of-life improvements that could help streamline the setup process for the agent:

1. Add a flag to bbctl for installing all required dependencies upfront
   Currently, when the agent connects to the server after a fresh install, it starts installing Ansible and other tools only when it receives a task. This can cause unintended prompts for a sudo password, especially when running under a low-privileged user. A dedicated flag to pre-install all necessary tools would be really helpful, or make it pre-install during run.

2. Include default presets during installation
   It would be great if the agent installation automatically included the default presets from the BBot repo, so everything is ready to go out of the box.

3. Allow API keys to be managed centrally
   It would simplify management if all API keys (for 3rd party services) could be configured on the server, and then automatically distributed to connected agents.

[TheTechromancer]

Thanks for the suggestions.

Add a flag to bbctl for installing all required dependencies upfront

This should be pretty easy to add.

Include default presets during installation

Every installation of BBOT comes with the full list of default presets

Allow API keys to be managed centrally

This is already possible by creating a scan preset on the server (bbctl scan preset create). To make this easier, we could add a "global preset" that would apply to all scans, merging with whichever preset is chosen for the individual scan.

[TheTechromancer]

Another small note on dependencies, the agent should probably be run as root or by exporting the BBOT_SUDO_PASS variable. This is because some modules like portscan (which uses masscan) require root access even if the dependencies have already been installed.

[RamadhanAmizudin]

Thanks for the suggestions.

Add a flag to bbctl for installing all required dependencies upfront

This should be pretty easy to add.

Include default presets during installation

Every installation of BBOT comes with the full list of default presets

Allow API keys to be managed centrally

This is already possible by creating a scan preset on the server (bbctl scan preset create). To make this easier, we could add a "global preset" that would apply to all scans, merging with whichever preset is chosen for the individual scan.

you are absolute right, after reading the docs, we can put the key in preset, and the agent will also getting it. awesome!

about default present, during my testing fresh bbot-server installation:

~/bbot-server# bbctl scan start --preset subdomain-enum --target mytarget
[ERROR] Preset not found: {'name': 'subdomain-enum'}

about deleting agent, i believe bbctl agent delete -i should be sufficient, no need for -n too

[TheTechromancer]

Oh I see. On BBOT Server, you have to create a preset. But the preset can include others like so:

include:
  - subdomain-enum