Breaking into Kali - 5huckle/OFFICIALTECHJOURNAL GitHub Wiki

Video I used here

Single User Mode

Restart Kali

While Kali is booting up, hit spacebar

Hover over Kali GNU/Linux

Push 'E'

Maybe push shift, I was able to scroll around without it but the teacher said push it so I did

Scroll down to the line that says linux

Scroll to the end of that line

Add 'single init=\bin\bash' at the end, then hit ctrl+x

Once it boots up, mount the disk

mount -rw -o remount /

Then you can change the password using 'passwd'

After setting root password, use the following commands

sync umount /