Part 2 - Kali Installation
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In this part, we complete the build and configuration of Kali Linux. This consists of the typical OS settings such as configuring the root password, disk partitioning, timezone, etc. The video concludes with booting the Kali VM for the first time and logging in with the configured encryption password. The desktop and the default apps and tools are ...
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Video Description
In this part, we complete the build and configuration of Kali Linux. This consists of the typical OS settings such as configuring the root password, disk partitioning, timezone, etc. The video concludes with booting the Kali VM for the first time and logging in with the configured encryption password. The desktop and the default apps and tools are displayed.
Video Transcription
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>> It's doing some networking configurations.
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It's finding my network interface.
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Now it's asking me to give this virtual machine a name.
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I'm going to call it again Kali-TEST,
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since I don't want to conflict with my other instance.
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You can choose a domain name.
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We don't need one for this setup,
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so we're just going to continue.
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It is going to go through and ask you
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to set your root password.
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Asks me about my time zone,
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typical operating system setups
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here, nothing too surprising.
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Then the actual partitioning task will come along.
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We can just pick defaults here.
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You don't have to get fancy. We can
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just use the entire disk.
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You could also set up logical volume manager,
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which if you think you're going to be
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resizing file systems later,
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you might want to look into that, you can set up
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an encrypted logical volume manager,
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which I've actually done for my instance.
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This is something to think about because
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now every time your Kali instance boots up,
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you'll be prompted for a password.
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That means that if you're doing
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sensitive pen testing work and you lose your laptop,
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or you lose your thumb drive
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where your Kali instance exists,
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at least it'll be encrypted
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and somebody can't get into that and
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discover sensitive information about
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your clients that you're doing pen testing for.
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So it's a good idea to think about encrypting it.
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I'm not going to select that.
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I will select so you can see
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>> what that screen looks like.
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>> We have our device here.
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All the files in one partition.
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That's a great setting for new users, as it says.
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It asks if I want to change the layout of my disk.
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I have to say yes to that.
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I'm going to close this other window
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here since that's a little bit annoying.
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Now it's going to continue to build the system.
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It's going to take a little while to do
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the disk work, so we're going to pause.
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Now we have to choose our encryption password.
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Obviously, you would choose something
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much longer than four characters.
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We want to make sure it's a good passphrase,
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32 characters, maybe longer.
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It says a minimum of 20 here,
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so that's a decent target to go for.
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I'm going to say go ahead and use
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the weak passphrase because this is
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just a demo that I'm doing.
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I'm not going to be actually using
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this system for my work.
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Now I'll go ahead and build out
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the partition and we
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get our final review of our settings.
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We'll just click "Continue".
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I'm going to write the changes to my disk.
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I will install the operating system.
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This will take a little while,
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so I'll go ahead and pause again.
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We're continuing with our installation.
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You can set up a network mirror if you want
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to get the updates in a slightly different way,
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we don't really need that for our purposes right now.
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We're going to go select "No" there.
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Now I will try to get the package manager all updated.
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We're nearly done with configuring
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our Kali pen testing instance.
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I can see that it's installing the boot loader and
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it's got the boot loader partially
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installing asking me to
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install the configured loader for booting the system,
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so we'll go ahead and select "Continue" here.
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We're going to select the default disk
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that it created for us to have sda.
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It goes ahead and installs the boot loader for us.
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We're finally getting to the end.
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We can boot the Kali VM
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and get logged in for the first time.
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The virtual machine will reboot itself.
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As we can see,
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>> it's asking me for my encryption password,
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>> which I'll go ahead and enter.
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Now the boot process will continue.
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I'm going to go to full screen mode.
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You might want to adjust your resolution
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little bit to get a better fit
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for your particular screen.
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By default, the login for Kali is
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root and the password is root backwards,
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which is toor, T-O-O-R. Oh, sorry.
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I chose a different password when I built the machine.
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Previously, that was the default password.
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I forgot that we get the option now to choose that.
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There is our desktop.
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We can see we've got the [inaudible] of browser here,
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we've got a command shell, your file browser,
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the display framework.
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We'll look at Armitage as I promised earlier.
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We'll also do a bunch of work from the command line.
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This concludes your initial setup of Kali.
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I'll be showing some other customizations and
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modifications as needed while
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we're doing our work later,
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but that's it for the Kali setup,
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I'll see you in the next video. Thank you.
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