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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0006410 | Kali Linux | General Bug | public | 2020-05-25 14:11 | 2021-06-22 18:50 |
Reporter | pomatu | Assigned To | steev | ||
Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
Product Version | 2020.2 | ||||
Summary | 0006410: No root on live? (whine) | ||||
Description | Hello, Kali Linux was amazing distro for forensics and pentesting. Both things require having root enviroment so you dont spend time on messing with permissions and other things. It was one of its kind for quite a long time. Having all that root support patches made kali linux most useful tool for these particular purposes. I downloaded 2020 build and what I see that it boots in userspace. Yes I can get to root with "sudo -i". But why have you done this? Whats the point? What makes kali linux then different from ubuntu? Preinstalled hacking tools? Srsly? This is both ridiculous and sad nonsense to have a forensics distro without root environment by default and even on LIVE version. You are ruining the project completely the whole point of it. Are you going to remove root patches as well? Hope it gets better soon, but I am forced to use 2019.4 version now because of these circumstances | ||||
Steps To Reproduce | just boot it | ||||
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Just how many times does this particular thing need to be addressed over and over and over again? First of all, that's not a bug. You wanna post this in the forum: https://forums.kali.org/ Secondly: you're gonna wanna check the reason why Kali has moved away from default root login before actually posting about it: https://www.kali.org/news/kali-default-non-root-user/ Lastly: You can always sudo passwd root and then su..I don't think those 5 seconds are all the rage here. |
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these 5 seconds are not 5 seconds basically its 5 seconds every time I open new shell and then permissions problems when working with webserver for example you copy files to /var/www you have to do chmod www-data and all that stuff, all that pain in the ass must be strictly avoided when you try to do things really fast. Theres no difference with ubuntu then. While under root I was able to edit any files with thunar and mousepad straight away without all that mess with sudo and chmod. Havent yet tested dpkg-reconfigure kali-grant-root, I will check it out, but my argument is still actual - I have to do this again and again. I can also setup persistence, but same way I can just remaster your ISO, this is not a point of my whine, the point is that your recent changes make no sense. You replying with that standard IT proverb like "this is not a bug, this is a new feature" but I see this as a serious bug for pentesting/forensics live distro. I think at least you should do a special grub boot root option so kali can boot under root like it was doing before, and it was perfect. Not clear from your news post: Are you going to abandon completely root patches as well? |
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And i'm glad I'm not the only one I hope you will get more whines and rethink your recent concepts |
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Please be mindful that I'm a reporter just like you are. I'm not affiliated with Offensive Sec or Kali bug team in any way. As for having to do this for every shell, you can do the following: echo "random_password" | su 3) source .profile This should pipe the password you set into su for every shell you drop into. Your other option would be using a VM. But as far as default root login goes, I don't think they'll be reverting back to how it used to be. |
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Sorry, mate, but like I said, I'm merely trying to help. I know it's a half-assed workaround, but yeah.. I would recommend trying dpkg-reconfigure kali-grant-root, getting Kali on a VM, or going the extra mile of customizing an ISO Beyond that, for the time being, I'm afraid that's gonna be the status quo that prevails. Best of luck, mate |
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Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2020-05-25 14:11 | pomatu | New Issue | |
2020-05-25 14:11 | pomatu | File Added: VirtualBox_xubuntu testperl_25_05_2020_17_09_24.png | |
2020-05-26 04:52 | X0RW3LL | Note Added: 0012836 | |
2020-05-26 12:51 | pomatu | Note Added: 0012839 | |
2020-05-26 12:54 | pomatu | Note Added: 0012840 | |
2020-05-26 13:17 | X0RW3LL | Note Added: 0012841 | |
2020-05-26 16:15 | pomatu | Note Added: 0012842 | |
2020-05-26 16:33 | X0RW3LL | Note Added: 0012843 | |
2020-12-01 10:50 | g0tmi1k | Severity | major => minor |
2021-06-22 18:50 | steev | Assigned To | => steev |
2021-06-22 18:50 | steev | Status | new => closed |
2021-06-22 18:50 | steev | Resolution | open => no change required |