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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.

Few of my blog readers mentioned to me that after Kali 2020.4 my previous method of installing Zenmap no longer works. So after breaking few VM images and few swear moment I was able to figure out a way to install Zenmap GUI in new Kali. 🙂

Go to https://nmap.org/download.html and scroll down to Source Code Distribution and download tar package https://nmap.org/dist/nmap-7.91.tar.bz2 and save to wherever you are happy :). Usually it is Download folder.

Here is link to all the packages need to install this https://github.com/ayeshsherman/ZENMAP.git

Then bring up terminal from the place downloaded the tar package and run sudo su and get the root access. After that run below command in sequence. Very good guide here https://nmap.org/book/inst-source.html 

apt-get update
bzip2 -cd nmap-7.91.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
cd nmap-7.91
./configure
make
su root
make install

After that you need to download python packages.

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pygtk/python-gtk2_2.24.0-5.1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
wget http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pygobject-2/python-gobject-2_2.28.6-14ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pycairo/python-cairo_1.16.2-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb

then install each package with dpkg -i <each package name from above>

As a example dpkg -i ./python-cairo_1.16.2-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb

Once you down you will be able to see zenmap from search window in kali. But if you want to run Zenmap as root you need to brows into place where tar package got unzip. In my case download folder nmap 7.91 and bring terminal and run sudo su and then ./zenmap.

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

Here is the way to install Zenmap on previous ver of Kali.

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

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64359059/whet-i-try-to-run-zenmap-the-terminal-show-me-this