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Figure 11: Entering a hostname
The first item it asks for is the name of your host. You can name it any-
thing you please, but I left mine with the default “kali.”
Next, you will be asked for the domain name. It’s not necessary to
enter anything here. Click
Continue.
The next screen, shown in Figure 12,
is very important. Here, you are asked for the password you want to use
for the
root user.
Figure 12: Choosing a password
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The root user in Linux is the all-powerful system administrator. You
can use any password you feel secure with. If this were a physical system that
we were using on the internet, I would suggest that
you use a very long and
complex password to limit the ability of an attacker to crack it. Since this is
a virtual machine that people can’t access without first accessing your host
operating system, password authentication on this virtual machine is less
important, but you should still choose wisely.
Click
Continue, and you will be asked to set your time zone. Do so and
then continue.
The next screen asks about partition disks (a
partition is just what it
sounds like—a portion or segment of your hard drive). Choose
Guided –
use entire disk, and Kali will detect your hard drives and set up a parti-
tioner automatically.
Kali will then warn you that all data on the disk you select will be
erased . . . but don’t worry! This is a virtual disk, and the disk is new and
empty, so this won’t actually do anything. Click
Continue.
Kali will now ask whether you want all files in one partition or if you
want to have separate partitions. If
this were a production system, you prob-
ably would select separate partitions for
/home,
/var, and
/tmp, but consider-
ing that we will be using this as a learning system in a virtual environment,
it is
safe for you to simply select All files in one partition.
Now you be will be asked whether to write your changes to disk. Select
