Just remote into your system, from host and enjoy life. Optionally, you may want to upgrade your packages – because patching tastes good mmm. Choose your own level of security suitable for your network exposure. Passwd #Choose your own secure root password at this step or optionally create a new user account to su or sudo with after RDP auth. 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’. I am assuming you are on a Mac but I know you probably are not.

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