Kali linux password file

Default passwords in Kali Linux

Let’s consider what standard (default) credentials are in Kali Linux and how to change them.

Kali Linux user password

What is the password Kali Linux LIVE

When booting a LIVE image, login credentials are not required. Running commands with sudo also does not require passwords.

What is the default password in Kali Linux

When installing the system, you will be asked to create a user account – username and password for it. These credentials will later be used to log into the system.

How to change your password in Kali Linux

To change your password, run the command:

enter the old password, and then two times the new password.

How to change password for another user in Kali Linux

To change the password for another user, run a command of the form:

What is the root password in Kali Linux

By default, the root password is not set. To set root password in Kali, run the command:

After that, you can log in as the root user.

What to do if you forgot your Kali Linux password

Default password Kali Linux in VMware and ARM images

In all official images, including VMware and ARM, the standard credentials are:

Password: kali

Vagrant Image Password

Username: vagrant

Password: vagrant

Kali Linux Password in SSH

The SSH password is exactly the same as the password for the user on the system. Those. in standard images, the kali username and password. After installing the system or changing the user password, when connecting via SSH, use the password of your account in the system.

It is recommended to configure key authentication, see “How to enable SSH in Kali Linux. How to connect to Kali Linux via SSH” for details.

Default tool credentials

Some tools shipped with Kali will use their own default credentials (others will generate a new password the first time they are used). The following tools have default passwords:

Beef-xss

Username: beef

Password: beef

Configuration file: /etc/beef-xss/config.yaml

MySQL

To initially configure the program and set the root password, run the command:

mysql_secure_installation

If you have already set the MySQL password in Kali Linux, but forgot it, then in the first terminal, type:

sudo systemctl stop mysql sudo mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables

mysql -u root mysql FLUSH PRIVILEGES; update user set password=PASSWORD('NEW_PASSWORD') where User='root'; flush privileges; quit

Please note that the NEW_PASSWORD line needs to be replaced with the password that you want to set for MySQL root.

In the first terminal CTRL+c

sudo kill `sudo cat /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid`

sudo systemctl start mysql

That’s it, now your MySQL has a new password.

PostgreSQL

User: postgres

Password: postgres

How to change PostgreSQL password

sudo systemctl start postgresql.service sudo -u postgres psql postgres

At the psql prompt, enter the command:

\password postgres Enter new password:

Openvas

Username: admin

To set up the program, run the command:

Metasploit-framework

The Kali’s official documentation says:

Username: postgres

Password: postgres

Configuration File: /usr/share/metasploit-framework/config/database.yml

But when trying to connect from msfconsole with these credentials, an error occurs:

Error while running command db_connect: Failed to connect to the Postgres data service: IMPORTANT: user "postgres" did not authenticate (Peer)

Another error option if you do not specify a password:

Error while running command db_connect: Failed to connect to the Postgres data service: fe_sendauth: no password supplied

To fix it, you can do the following. We start the PostgreSQL service, create a new user with (called “user”) with a password and create a database (called “metasploit”) on behalf of this user:

sudo systemctl start postgresql.service sudo -u postgres createuser user -W sudo -u postgres createdb -O user metasploit

msfconsole db_connect user:user_pass@localhost/metasploit db_status

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Common Password List ( rockyou.txt ) Built-in Kali Linux wordlist rockyou.txt

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README.md

Context Back in 2009, a company named RockYou was hacked. This wouldn’t have been too much of a problem if they hadn’t stored all of their passwords unencrypted, in plain text for an attacker to see. They downloaded a list of all the passwords and made it publically available.

Kali Linux provides some password dictionary files as part of its standard installation. This file is located in the following location: /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt.gz

Kali Linux is an open source project that is maintained and funded by Offensive Security, a provider of world-class information security training and penetration testing services.

This Dataset was upload to aid in studying MD5 hash decryption using Neural Networks.

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Common Password List ( rockyou.txt ) Built-in Kali Linux wordlist rockyou.txt

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Username and password files in Kali [duplicate]

I’m new to pen-testing world. I’m trying to learn how to gain access through telnet service opened on port 23. I’m using Metasploit. The first approach I’m trying is using the telnet_login module to try a dictionary attack on the target. I’ve seen that I should set USER_FILE and PASS_FILE . Does Kali have sample user.txt and pass.txt files? Are there better approaches to attack telnet service?

Kali is very well documented and every tool has its own documentation. tools.kali.org/password-attacks/wordlists

Also note that there is a difference between Kali and Metasploit. Kali is just a Linux distribution. The tools that come bundled with Kali are the ones that you use.

Anyway what about the second question? Are there other way to take advantages of telnet other than enforce the login?

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Kali contains built in password word lists. They are compressed and can be found at:

I’m unaware of username lists, since usernames are usually pretty dependent on the format the service uses, and are typically fairly unique.

You can put together a simple non-exhaustive word lists for the users yourself containing obvious potential names such as:

Since you’re using this to attack your own system though, you should already know what the username is, so you can just list that.

A brief reminder that you shouldn’t use a tool like this to attack a system you don’t have explicit permission to access. That would be a crime.

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