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Digital Forensics with Kali Linux

You're reading from   Digital Forensics with Kali Linux Enhance your investigation skills by performing network and memory forensics with Kali Linux 2022.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837635153
Length 414 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Shiva V. N. Parasram Shiva V. N. Parasram
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Preface 1. Part 1: Blue and Purple Teaming Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Red, Blue, and Purple Teaming Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to Digital Forensics 4. Chapter 3: Installing Kali Linux 5. Chapter 4: Additional Kali Installations and Post-Installation Tasks 6. Chapter 5: Installing Wine in Kali Linux 7. Part 2: Digital Forensics and Incident Response Fundamentals and Best Practices
8. Chapter 6: Understanding File Systems and Storage 9. Chapter 7: Incident Response, Data Acquisitions, and DFIR Frameworks 10. Part 3: Kali Linux Digital Forensics and Incident Response Tools
11. Chapter 8: Evidence Acquisition Tools 12. Chapter 9: File Recovery and Data Carving Tools 13. Chapter 10: Memory Forensics and Analysis with Volatility 3 14. Chapter 11: Artifact, Malware, and Ransomware Analysis 15. Part 4: Automated Digital Forensics and Incident Response Suites
16. Chapter 12: Autopsy Forensic Browser 17. Chapter 13: Performing a Full DFIR Analysis with the Autopsy 4 GUI 18. Part 5: Network Forensic Analysis Tools
19. Chapter 14: Network Discovery Tools 20. Chapter 15: Packet Capture Analysis with Xplico 21. Chapter 16: Network Forensic Analysis Tools 22. Index 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Enabling the root user account in Kali

Now that all our updates and upgrades have been completed, let’s look at enabling the root user account in Kali Linux. You will have noticed by now that some versions of Kali, when installed, allow access with the default username and password of Kali. This was done as a security feature to not allow unintentional changes to configurations or tools. If we wish to execute commands or perform various tasks using root or administrator privileges instead, we must type sudo before the respective commands.

Sudo is an abbreviation for superuser do, which allows us to run commands and tools as a superuser with the highest privileges, known as root privileges. It can sometimes be a bit of a nuisance to have to type this before commands, but it becomes routine after a while.

However, if you are new to Kali and Linux-based operating systems, I do recommend using the default profile and typing sudo when necessary, but the choice is ultimately...

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