Assignment 5.1 Breaking into Kali - FlameSpyro/Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki

Assignment 5.1 - Breaking into Kali

  • This lab follows Devins's video guide into breaking into a kali box (duh)

  • First, restart your Kali box!
  • As it boots up, press space
  • During the selection, do not choose any. Instead, press e to enter a config menu.
  • Look for a line that says Linux /boot/vmlinuz and enter the following after the word "quiet splash" single init=/bin/bash
    • single: single user mode
    • init=/bin/bash = tells system to boot using /bin/bash
  • Hit ctrl + x
  • You will then boot to a root cmd
  • I entered the following:
mount -rw -o remount /
passwd
df -h
sync
unmount /