packer-kali-linux

This contains a packer build config that will set you up with a new Kali Linux image that is configured and ready for use.

Requirements:

• VMware (Fusion OR Workstation)
• Packer

Use:

• Clone repository
• Enter repository directory
• Modify scripts/user.sh to reflect passwords and ssh public keys you want set up in the system
• Run packer build on the build configuration
• packer build kali.json
• Finished VM image will be in bin/

Debugging:

• You can turn off headless build mode so you can see the build happening
• edit kali.json and change "headless": true to "headless": false
• You can run packer in debug mode to walk through each step of the build one at a time
• packer build --debug kali.json

Build Specifics

• Root user will be set up with custom password / authorized_keys file
• Otto user will be set up with custom password / authorized_keys file
• Otto is the user I use for ansible/vagrant automation. Not really mandatory
• Otto will be set up with passwordless sudo access
• SSH will restrict root access to key based auth
• SSH server host-keys will be regenerated
• APT will be set up with proper repositories
• Beyond that, not much will be installed