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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 KDE environment


KDE is an international community for free software. The plasma desktop is one of the most popular projects of KDE; it comes as a default desktop environment for a lot of Linux distributions. It was founded in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich.

How to do it...

To configure the KDE environment follow the given steps:

  1. We use the following command to install KDE:
        apt-get install kali-defaults kali-root-login desktop-base
        kde-plasma-desktop

The following screenshot shows the output for the preceding command:

  1. Type Y when it asks for confirmation on additional space requirements.
  2. Click OK on both the windows that pop up.
  3. 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 for the preceding command:

  1. Choose the option KDE session (in our case 2) and press Enter.
  2. Log out and log in again and we will see the KDE environment:

Note

Kali already has provided prebuilt images of different desktop environments. These can be downloaded from here: https://www.kali.org/downloads/.