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Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux
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Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

by Karl Gilbert Gupta, Benjamin Caudill
April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
508 pages
11h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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Setting root and user passwords

The very first step of configuring root SSH on a Kali Linux instance is to set the root password. The root account usually doesn't have a password set for ec2 instances that are using an ec2-user account that has sudo privileges. However, since we are setting up SSH access from mobile SSH applications, this needs to be set. It should be noted, however, that this comes with a reduction in the security stance of the Kali instance.

Changing the root password is as simple as running sudo passwd on the SSH terminal:

Similarly, the password of the current user can also be changed by running sudo passwd ec2-user over ...

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