Configuring things after kali is installed

After you complete the installation of kali linux, there are few things that need to be completed as post install tasks. Below is part 1 of many steps I execute as part of my post setup tasks. There is no real order to any of this, and I am writing it as I think of them.

1 Upgrade the distro to make sure you have the latest install.

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

2 Install kernel headers and virtualbox

apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) dkms virtualbox

3 Install Pureftpd. This is not really required. It is just another option to use to upload stuff during penetration tests.

apt-get install pure-ftpd

 4 This is a script I worked on while doing my OCSP. It will automagically configure Pure-FTPD.

#!/bin/bash
# bash script to setup and configure pure-ftpd server

echo "[*] Creating ftpgroup and ftpuser [*]\n"
groupadd ftpgroup
useradd -g ftpgroup -d /home/dir -s /dev/null ftpuser

echo "[*] Configuring ftpuser kryptonite [*]\n"
pure-pw useradd kryptonite -u ftpuser -d /ftphome
pure-pw mkdb
cd /etc/pure-ftpd/auth/
ln -s ../conf/PureDB 60pdb

echo "[*] Setting home directory to /ftphome/ [*]\n"
mkdir /ftphome

echo "[*] Setting permissions on home directory [*]\n"
chown -R ftpuser:ftpgroup /ftphome/

echo "[*] Setup Complete Restarting Server [*]\n"
service pure-ftpd restart