• SSH Server on Kali Linux
  • Install SSH server
  • Enable root account access from ssh

SSH Server on Kali Linux

Ref

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX4eWqAKQpE

Install SSH server

This step is usually not required in Kali Linux as it comes preinstalled with ssh server. However, if its not installed, you can use

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

Enable root account access from ssh

By default Kali does not allow root account access from ssh. You need to make following changes in the config file.

nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Change following in the config file

PermitRootLogin yes

Now, start the service and check its status

service ssh start

service ssh status

Generate SSH key-pair

Let us generate a ssh key-pair in the windows client

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f %USERPROFILE%/.ssh/ubuntu_rsa

Now, copy the public file into the remote host

$ scp %USERPROFILE%/.ssh/ubuntu_rsa.pub student@10.10.10.105:~

On the remote host, perform following changes

# append the contents of the public key to end of the authorized_keys

$ cat ubuntu_rsa.pub >>~/.ssh/authorized_keys

# you can change the permissions as a good practice

$ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

$ rm ~/ubuntu_rsa.pub

Now, you can test your connection

scp %USERPROFILE%/.ssh/ubuntu_rsa.pub student@10.10.10.105

VS Code SSHSetup

Refs:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXMyln_5q4

VS Code SSH configuration

Host ubuntu_remote

HostName 10.10.10.105

User student

IdentityFile C:\Users\user\.ssh\ubuntu_rsa