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How to RDP into Kali Linux

Ayesh De Silva

I love to experiment with various software and one of those essential system that I play around is kali. I’ve setup mine in ESXI server that I cannot directly connect. This is one of the way you can RDP into your kali and experience full GUI access.

Here is the codes that you need to run in sudo mode.

Apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
Apt-get dist-upgrade
Apt-get install xrdp
Service xrdp-sesman start
update-rc.d xrdp enable
Apt-get remove gnome-core
apt-get install lxde-core lxde kali-defaults kali-root-login desktop-base
update-alternatives –config x-session-manager

Now you can access your kali instance from your Windows PC.

Install ZENMAP in Debain( Kali Linux) base system.

Ayesh De Silva

If you are familiar with PENTEST and Kali linux platform, you should know nmap which is great vulnerability scanning tool. But recent version of kali has dropped ZENMAP which is GUI base for nmap which great tool to run nmap in GUI and also to generate command line to run on nmap.

Apparently, ZENMAP need to install manually on newer kali OS’s. Here is way to install it.

You can get more info here https://nmap.org

Go to https://nmap.org/download.html and download Optional Zenmap GUI (all platforms): zenmap-7.80-1.noarch.rpm usually it will go to download on your kali

Then run these commands:

sudo su it will ask to enter password for root

apt-get update
apt-get install alien

cd to the download folder where you download zenmap

sudo alien “zenmap-7.80-1.noarch.rpm”

sudo dpkg -i “zenmap-7.80-1.noarch.deb”

Then you will be able to launch zenmap.

All credit goes to https://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?45988-Zenmap-missing-Kali-Linux-2019-4