Assignment 5.1 ‐ Breaking into Kali - Jacob-Mayotte/SEC335_Tech_Journal GitHub Wiki

For this assignment I followed Devin's video, it was very understandable and straight-forward. Below are the steps taken to complete the assignment:

Deliverable 1:

For this I restarted my Kali VM. While it was restarting I pressed space and was greeted with the following:

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In the gray blank box were two options, I pressed, e on the Kali Linux GNU option and was met with the following:

I scrolled in the following GNU Grub screen:

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Until I found the highlighted line: "b-4edd-... ro quiet splash"

After splash I added the following: single init=/bin/bash

Then I pressed CTRL X which greeted me with a root prompt. I then ran the following commands:

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Then as the lab defined I ran:

  • sync
  • umount /

I then rebooted the box.