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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

By : Himanshu Sharma
Book Image

Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

By: Himanshu Sharma

Overview of this book

With the current rate of hacking, it is very important to pentest your environment in order to ensure advanced-level security. This book is packed with practical recipes that will quickly get you started with Kali Linux (version 2016.2) according to your needs, and move on to core functionalities. This book will start with the installation and configuration of Kali Linux so that you can perform your tests. You will learn how to plan attack strategies and perform web application exploitation using tools such as Burp, and Jexboss. You will also learn how to perform network exploitation using Metasploit, Sparta, and Wireshark. Next, you will perform wireless and password attacks using tools such as Patator, John the Ripper, and airoscript-ng. Lastly, you will learn how to create an optimum quality pentest report! By the end of this book, you will know how to conduct advanced penetration testing thanks to the book’s crisp and task-oriented recipes.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
6
Wireless Attacks – Getting Past Aircrack-ng

Configuring the Xfce environment


Xfce is a free, fast, and lightweight desktop environment for Unix and Unix-like platforms. It was started by Olivier Fourdan in 1996. The name Xfce originally stood for XForms Common Environment, but since that time Xfce has been rewritten twice and no longer uses the XForms toolkit.

How to do it...

To configure the Xfce environment follow the given steps:

  1. We start by using the following command to install Xfce along with all plugins and goodies:
        apt-get install kali-defaults kali-root desktop-base xfce4
        xfce4-places-plugin xfce4-goodies

The following screenshot shows the preceding command:

  1. Type Y when it asks for confirmation on additional space requirements.
  2. Select Ok on the dialogue box that appears.
  1. We select lightdm as our default desktop manager and press the Enter key.
  2. When the installation is complete we open a Terminal window and type the following command:
        update-alternatives --config x-session-manager

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

  1. Choose the option xfce4-session (in our case 3) and press the  Enter key.
  1. Log out and log in again or you can restart the machine and we will see the Xfce environment: