Now with Kali installed, I have a ton of stuff to explore and lab! Open your SSH client of choice on another device, and test SSH to Kali Restart the SSH service by typing: service ssh restart Change the option PermitRootLogin to Yes. Since we are using Root to login, edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Type: ssh-keygen Answer file in which to save the key, and assign a password To check for, and apply all available updates, type the following: apt-get update & echo ‘y’ | apt-get upgrade & echo ‘y’ | apt-get dist-upgrade & echo ‘y’ Select Finish Partitioning, and write changes to disk Mentioned above, I’ve chosen to put everything on one partition I’ll explore best practices, and different partition scheme’s in a future lab. Setting up the disk partitions, I’m selecting Guided setup with LVM. When the boot menu appears, select Install Start the VM, and click on the little remote window, to open a remote console connection tab. The only non default item I configured, was to change the CD/DVD to DataStore ISO, and mount the Kali ISO, downloaded earlier. Name the VM, select VM options, and configure system resources. Go to download section and select you desired download.Ĭreate the Virtual Machine I’ve opened a VMware HTML5 client session with the Host, as I have not yet installed the VSCA. Here, I’m downloading the full ISO, and going to install manually, apply all outstanding updates, and install/configure SSH. Available for download are, prebuilt VM images, as well as different prebuilt ISO ’s, depending on the environment. Beginning of the Security Lab There are a few options, when it comes to Kali, and running it as a VM.

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