Once the time has come to start your testing, you will want to be prepared. This entails having an action plan available, all of your equipment and scripts up and running, and of course having some mechanism to record all steps and actions taken. This will provide you with a reference for yourself and other team members. You may remember the steps you took to bypass that firewall now, but what about four months from now when you are facing the same challenge? Taking good notes is critical to a successful penetration test.
The first thing we want to do is to ensure that we have changed the default password of the Kali machine. If you built your machine from the ISO image, then you have already completed this; but for those of you who did not, you need to change the password. The procedure for this is as follows:
root@kali:~# passwd Enter new UNIX password: 1NewPassWordHere! Retype new UNIX password: 1NewPassWordHere! passwd: password updated successfully...