[SOLVED] ethical hacking

[vsreeser]

Want to learn ethical hacking in hopes of someday working from home as a penetration tester.

Kali2 and Bugtraq 2 are ok. But, is there an easy and fairly fool proof way of just installing all those tools in Kubuntu? Something other than tracking them all down and installing one by one. I want the tools to learn with, but would rather have a fully functional kubuntu. A lot of the pentesting distro's have habit of using dark themes and color schemes. These are hard for me to read and unnecessary (at best).

If this is a topic we can't discuss here, sorry

[whatthefunk]

Maybe this is what you are looking for?
http://www.tecmint.com/install-kali-...ubuntu-debian/

[GreyGeek]

http://askubuntu.com/questions/55867...ools-on-ubuntu
Shows how for 14.04

[vsreeser]

Maybe this is what you are looking for?
http://www.tecmint.com/install-kali-...ubuntu-debian/

Tried this once. Broke 1404 install. Wouldn't recommend for 1404+ Good idea though

[vsreeser]

http://askubuntu.com/questions/55867...ools-on-ubuntu
Shows how for 14.04

This looks good. Will follow answer deemed second answer and let everyone know how it works, Will make a clonezilla copy first. Kubuntu isn't hard to install, but why not clone a copy to restore if needed. Takes less than 10 to make and restores in about 5

[GreyGeek]

This looks good. Will follow answer deemed second answer and let everyone know how it works, Will make a clonezilla copy first. Kubuntu isn't hard to install, but why not clone a copy to restore if needed. Takes less than 10 to make and restores in about 5

This is where Btrfs shines. Take a PRE snapshot for @root and @home before you install Kali and then a POST snapshot afterwards. If things don't work out you can

snapper -c home delete n-m
sudo snapper -c root delete o-p

where n and o are the @home and @root PRE snapshots numbers and m and p are the POST @home and @root snapshots numbers
Snapshots take just a few seconds to create and the delete commands that delete everything between the numbers. Then you can delete the PRE and POST snapshots themselves to recover their space.
Rinse and repeat until the app works the way you want.

[vsreeser]

This is where Btrfs shines. Take a PRE snapshot for @root and @home before you install Kali and then a POST snapshot afterwards. If things don't work out you can

snapper -c home delete n-m
sudo snapper -c root delete o-p

where n and o are the @home and @root PRE snapshots numbers and m and p are the POST @home and @root snapshots numbers
Snapshots take just a few seconds to create and the delete commands that delete everything between the numbers. Then you can delete the PRE and POST snapshots themselves to recover their space.
Rinse and repeat until the app works the way you want.

Should try btrfs. I have an empty partition I haven't installed anything on yet. Wondering if I can clone current kubuntu install to it, then convert to btrfs to experiment.

[jlittle]

This is where Btrfs shines. Take a PRE snapshot for @root and @home before you install Kali and then a POST snapshot afterwards. If things don't work out you can

snapper -c home delete n-m
sudo snapper -c root delete o-p

where n and o are the @home and @root PRE snapshots numbers and m and p are the POST @home and @root snapshots numbers.

Does this work while running the OS you're mucking around with? Or do you have to boot something else?

[GreyGeek]

Does this work while running the OS you're mucking around with? Or do you have to boot something else?

Yes! You can work with the FS while it is live! Here are some threads about Btrfs

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ighlight=btrfs

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ighlight=btrfs

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ighlight=btrfs

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ighlight=btrfs

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ighlight=btrfs

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ighlight=btrfs

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ighlight=btrfs

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ighlight=btrfs

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ighlight=btrfs

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ighlight=btrfs

Of course, those links lead to other informative links. With regard to snapshots I've installed a version of snapper for Ubuntu and wrote my own script, "snap_pre_post.sh". Here it is:

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#!/bin/bash
# created by Jerry L Kreps on July 20, 2015 and released under the GPL 2.0.
# This script merely creates a snapshot in both root and home with the designation of PRE or POST as the type, 
# which indicates that the user created it before an action or afterwards.
# This script is run with PRE as the TYPE before an action which you may want to reverse
# AND this script run again with POST as the TYPE after that action has been completed.  Both snapshots are singletons because
# no timeline is used.  Only the "PRE" or"POST" in the description, along with a timestamp, links the pre to the post snapshot.
# To reverse the action run the following two snapper commands:
#
# snapper -c home udochange n..m   where n or o is the number of the PRE and m or p is the number of the POST snapshot
# sudo snapper -c root undochange o..p
#
# After running those two commands both of the empty snapshots folders can be deleted using
#
# snapper -c home delete n-m
# sudo snapper -c root delete o-p
#
#
#
NOW=$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M)
echo Enter snapshot type PRE or POST:
read TYPE
echo Enter description
read DESC
STR=$TYPE" "$DESC" "$NOW
echo $STR
HCMD='snapper -c home create -d "'${STR}'"'
RCMD='sudo snapper -c root create -d "'${STR}'"'
eval "$HCMD"
eval "$RCMD"

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[vsreeser]

Want to learn ethical hacking in hopes of someday working from home as a penetration tester.

Kali2 and Bugtraq 2 are ok. But, is there an easy and fairly fool proof way of just installing all those tools in Kubuntu? Something other than tracking them all down and installing one by one. I want the tools to learn with, but would rather have a fully functional kubuntu. A lot of the pentesting distro's have habit of using dark themes and color schemes. These are hard for me to read and unnecessary (at best).

If this is a topic we can't discuss here, sorry

Found the best answser. Backbox is built on ubuntu 14.04 Might just replace my main linux os with this,

[GreyGeek]

Looks good. Why build your own kit plane when you can climb aboard a fully armed F-22 !!!