Exit root account after, if you want.Īpt-get install -y kali-desktop-xfce xrdp Now you should be at an interactive Kali terminal, run these one at a time: su #Assuming you are not root, you would be prompted instead of prefixing sudo everywhere. docker pull kalilinux/kali-rollingĭocker run -p 3389:3389 -t -i kalilinux/kali-rolling /bin/bash you could run this through a VPN on an air gapped net, otherwise on a trusted network where you are not leaving ports open to the Internet. Disclaimer: This is strictly for lab purposes only and does not reflect the setup of a production environment, DO NOT run this setup public-facing ex. We will be connecting to localhost:3389 using the username root, and your own password of choice. We are simply downloading Kali for docker, then running the container mapping port 3389 (host) to 3389 (guest), so we can use Microsoft Remote Desktop (for Mac) just find ‘Remote Desktop Standalone Installer’. It would be much easier to use a virtual machine setup like VMWare or VirtualBox or Kali on Windows via WSL2.Īnd, since this is TryHackMe, it's also super easy to just pay the $10/mo and use the cloud-based AttackBox machine through your browser.I am assuming you are on a Mac but I know you probably are not.

This document seems to describe how to install/use the official Kali docker image - but it doesn't address getting the GUI working. (e.g., you get whatever running in docker, make sure the machine inside docker is running sshd and port 22 is open, then ssh into the docker and use that connection to tunnel X-windows.) Or perhaps it's possible to make X-window connections without SSH by opening the correct ports, I am not an X-windows wizard and this is essentially the edge of what I personally know how to do. It's probably possible with X-windows + SSH, so if you want to do that I'd start with learning how to pass X-windows connections across an SSH link. (It also collects a lot of tools that would be annoying to find one-by-one).

Kali is mostly interesting because it provides a GUI to access a lot of tools that would otherwise be command-line only.

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