Hi. I was lookin for ways to enable secure boot on kali linux and i found a method using sbctl for arch linux. I was wondering if someone has tried and make it work since i haven’t found much information about sbctl and kali.
From the material that i found, i read that enabling secure boot in kali isn’t worth it because it could interfere with some kali functions and tools. Is this true?
SecureBoot - Debian Wiki this would be the debian documentation for it. You are going to have to keep doing it again periodically though.
I would be hard pressed to imagine any situation where this is the “easy way” to solve the underlying problem you are trying to solve.
If this is about “But I want to dual boot and game on windows” then this is not the easy solution you are looking for.
Kali Linux doesn’t have their grub bootloader signed (Debian does), so the user has to use their own keys, which is a hassle described in Managing EFI Boot Loaders for Linux: Controlling Secure Boot.
This method of self-signing everything with custom keys is extremely secure with no need to have Microsoft sign bootloaders and images, but it is high maintenance. sbctl is another tool that can manage secure boot keys in a user-friendly fashion.
I almost forgot, here’s Arch Wiki as a reference too: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface/Secure Boot - ArchWiki
sbctl can be installed on Kali, but it’s mainly used at on systems with Secure Boot and systemd boot. It is not commonly preinstalled. Use only if managing Secure Boot keys manually.
Sbctl can work on Kali but you need to install it manually Secure Boot may cause tool issues.