Assignment 5.1: Breaking into Kali

• To begin, I restarted my Kali VM, and while it was booting, I pressed space. This brought me to a menu to boot to linux or navigate to an advanced options menu.
• While hovering over the "Kali GNU/Linux" option, I pressed E to enter the GNU GRUB menu/configuration.
• Here, I pressed shift to allow myself to navigate and edit the configuration.
• I navigated down the the line that begins with "linux" and ends with "splash". At the end of the line, I added single init=/bin/bash
  • Single, sets the host to single user mode
  • init=/bin/bash tells the system to enter /bin/bash on boot
• I then hit CTRL+X, and the system booted into a root prompt
• I next mounted the root directory using, mount -rw -o remount /
  • This allows me to make changes such as /etc/passwd
• I then changed the root password using passwd
• I then entered the command df -h to show storage usage and availability on the VM
• Finally, I used the command sync and then the command umount / and rebooted the system