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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 Mate environment


The Mate desktop environment was built in continuation of GNOME 2. It was first released in 2011.

How to do it...

To configure the Mate environment follow the given steps:

  1. We start by using the following command to install the Mate environment:
        apt-get install desktop-base mate-desktop-environment

The following screenshot shows the preceding command:

  1. Type Y when it asks for confirmation on additional space requirements.
  2. When installation is complete we will use the following command to set Mate as our default environment:
        update-alternatives --config x-session-manager
  1. Choose the option mate-session (in our case 2) and press the Enter key:
  1. Log out and log in again or restart and we will see the Mate environment: