LOL, I'd love it if AWS were paying me to hawk their platform. ;) Nope, definitely a real human, really trying to get Kali up and running in the cloud. I got no answers, so I worked out a solution...
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LOL, I'd love it if AWS were paying me to hawk their platform. ;) Nope, definitely a real human, really trying to get Kali up and running in the cloud. I got no answers, so I worked out a solution...
I also found another tutorial which would have let me get this working on Vultur for $2.50/month, which isn't free, but is manageable. The reason I wanted to get Kali was so I could install packages...
Since I wasn't able to get AWS working, I switched to trying Google Compute Engine. Following these instructions got me most of the way to a solution. Google gives you $300 for a year, which is...
So I have tried the steps in the SO answer. And I got almost to the end, but I've fallen at the last hurdle. When I attempt to import the .ova VM image from S3, I get this error:
"StatusMessage":...
Wow, I had no idea there was a newer version of VirtualBox. I had downloaded and installed multiple updates over the past few months after in-app alerts. "Check for Updates…" also said I was at the...
Kali has an official AMI on the AWS Marketplace, but it has a minimum instance requirement of t2.medium. I don't need metasploit or a GUI, so I was hoping to be able to use AWS on Free Tier, which...
There are likely two different issues here. `ifconfig` doesn't exist in the core kali install anymore, it's been deprecated in favor of `ip`. So if you've for example created a live build from the...
Glad you got it working. However, from a security perspective, having your home directory writeable by anyone on the system is not a good idea.
The real problem with your setup is that the home...
There are two ways to add a user: useradd and adduser. The former, which you used, does do some things, like creating a line in /etc/passwd:
$ sudo useradd testme
$ grep testme /etc/passwd...
I am running kali-linux-2020-1-vbox-amd64-ova in VirtualBox 6.0.16 on OS X 10.14.6. I have set both "Shared Clipboard" and "Drag and Drop" to "Bidirectional", but neither clipboard sharing nor drag...