Hello and welcome to this Cali fundamentals video.
I'm very excited to be with you here today.
We've been doing a lot of work and I'm sure you're asking yourself.
When are we going to get started? When are we
going to start working with the distribution? Well, the good news is
is we're going to get an introduced now. We're
going to talk about basic navigation
through the distribution. And really this
is where the rubber starts to meet the road in this lesson and
in this course.
So the objectives of this lesson is for
you to walk away feeling comfortable and you
know, having a high level understanding of
where some of the things are in Callie Linux.
Now this distribution may be a little
bit different if you're using the labs that we've pointed out earlier that
you can use but I'll also do a quick tour of that
environment as well so that you're on the
same page as we're moving forward and working through these things together.
So I'm gonna go ahead and pull up my session that
I've got. This is a live boot. So as we
discussed this is not persistent between reboots. And so
we're going to work through this together and talk about what we're
looking at. So when you do a live boot you
don't log in using a username and
password it comes straight to the desktop here. And so for
those of you that want to do a full installation just
note that when you initially go to login or do
the installation it will ask you to change the password I recommend
doing so and not using any defaults or
any weak credentials with this distribution.
Now taking your attention to the left hand side
here. We've got this bar and this bar has several applications
on it, you know top to bottom.
We've got our web browser terminal which we can use to
enter some commands and do things of that nature. We've
got file explorer essentially here like we do
in Windows and then we've got some security testing
and Pen testing tools at the bottom. We have
Leaf pad, which is essentially like a
text document or a text pad that we can use in Linux.
And we've also got show applications at the
bottom. So this is much like the application menu
on a phone or a tablet or on an
Apple device as well as in Windows. You've got the start
menu where you can search for different applications and this is
pretty much everything that you've got in the distribution right
now. So as you can see on the right hand side, we've
got these little bubbles here and as we scroll through it
just shows us that we're in that next section with respect
to the applications that we're looking at here.
Now if at any point in time, you've got
something you're looking for like in map or let's just
say disk utilization. You can start to type that if you know what you're looking
for and I'll look there's my disk utilization or
disk thing here so I can click into that
and it shows me my current home directory and
then I can click into the actual disc that
I'm using and it starts to go to work and show me
some things here, but that's not our Focus for today. So that
is a high level view of the bar
here to the left. Now in the top right hand corner. You've
got what's kind of like a start menu would be the windows and that
you can drill into that and you've got some different settings and
things you can do here. You've got the ability to log
out and reboot and power off the current
session. You can lock the screen with the lock button
here and then in the bottom left hand corner, we've
got our settings button. So this will pull up
A menu that we've got here. So we've we're in
details right now and we've got users here. But if we back out
we'll notice that we've got a number of different settings
and areas that we can go into so if you plan on
using the distribution day to day and you want to do some customization, we've
got backgrounds notifications search
region and language. So if you
want to change the languages and the format of those
you can you know, go in here and do whatever is going
to best suit you and your needs we've got some universal access
settings that we can use here as well
online accounts again, if we're using the distribution day
to day you can connect to Some Cloud accounts here privacy sharing
sound Etc. So if
you're looking to check your sound card or figure out what something's
not working you can do some research and let's do some settings
here power much like we do for Windows when we
want the screen to go blank or suspend Etc.
We've got network settings which we can
drill down into and actually see our network
settings and make some changes and do things of that nature
and then devices, you know, input devices
display information Etc
that you can make changes to and manipulate and then
down here at the bottom. It kind of brings us back to this
user's date time area that
we were in earlier. I do recommend if you're going to use the distribution for
day-to-day tasks that you add a user
to this that does not have root privileges
right now running is the root account if you
make a mistake accidentally delete a file that you don't mean to
if you're exploring the distribution and you make a mistake that could
cost a lot of trouble for you. So I always recommend that
you add a user that doesn't have administrative privilege and
you use that user as you're exploring and looking through some
things and learning the ropes. But of course when you need to
do some security testing and you're you know needing to
use some of the tools and things of that nature you're going to want to run
as
Your administrative account in this case, which is root now.
In the top left-hand Corner, we've got this application drop
down. It does a really nice job of laying
everything out again. These are the favorites that you saw on
the desktop earlier. So you'll notice that this actually matches the
layout over here in the corner. And then as you go through this it's
essentially those tool categories that we talked about in
previous lessons, you'll see that some tools or applications
are multiple areas. But essentially each of
these categories is, you know, got some applications in
it that'll help you to do things like post exploitation techniques
or exploitation tools reverse engineering
Etc. And then at the bottom, you've got some usual applications
accessories calculator things
of that nature Etc that you can use and mess with
there.
Now that's essentially a very high
level overview of some of the locations and things of that
nature. The one thing I do want to mention is you do have that file
explorer here as well as places at the
top which is much like the
component that you have under your user account and windows which gives
you your desktop folder documents downloads Etc and
then computer which will allow you to browse
into some of the other directories. So
this is your home directory here, which is essentially where your stuff lives
right? It's much like your user profile and windows everything
outside of this is very much system and applications and
other things. So like we said if you accidentally delete
something here, you may have to reinstall the distribution a
tool may not work later. So just be cautious as
you work through this
Now this would be what you'd be looking at. If
you would just installed Cali or maybe this has changed
since this distribution and now you've got something different you're looking
at but those are the the kind of high-level details there.
So let me go ahead and show you a lab
environment that we had discussed earlier in
our lessons as well. So right now on
cybrary, I'm looking at the host data Integrity
baselining lab. So we're going to launch this
real quick and what you'll see here is once this
gets up and running. There's actually a Cali virtual
machine that's in this lamb environment. And
so if you're not looking to install everything and do all the
work as far as like downloading the hypervisor Kelly
getting that running get in that going you can just log in and get
started right away here.
So you'll note that the password for this is tour typically with
the Cali distribution. You're going to do root as
the username tour as the password.
And instantly you'll see there's a few differences here. We don't
have the favorites bar. You know, the the icons
look a little different.
But as you can see, we still have system settings some of those other
areas are now broken out a little bit more, you know,
so really just get familiar
with the distribution that you're going to enjoy using that's going
to be the most beneficial to you applications here
a little different. They've got a Cali directory that
actually has those tools broken down into the
same categories. We were looking at earlier. So depending on
the distribution that you're using you're just gonna want to get comfortable with
it as we get into the course where we're really gonna be working on
that the terminal here and so you can follow along in
any of the exercises that will be doing or lessons
that will be doing with this lament if you
choose to use it as well and so with those two things in
mind.
That is essentially what we're looking at with respect to getting
comfortable with the distribution. You need to really as
I would say bust your knuckles on it, you know break a
few things get into a few things check some things out don't do anything
illegal, of course, don't try to hack any IPS or do
any fancy, you know tool utilization at this
point in time, you know, just get to know the distribution get
to know where things are at do some additional reading and
get to understand what's really going to work for
you and what you're going to enjoy seeing and how you want to have it
laid out.
Now in summary, you know this lecture we
took a brief brief look into the kind
of Cali desktop and how things were laid out.
We looked at of course the version that we recently downloaded as
well as the version that's available to you in your labs. And
we got a feel for where things are at. And what things
do at a very high level with respect
to what's under settings and what we have as far
as applications and things of that nature and so I want
to thank you for your time today and I look forward
to working with you in the future.