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Practical Web Penetration Testing

You're reading from  Practical Web Penetration Testing

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624039
Pages 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Gus Khawaja Gus Khawaja
Profile icon Gus Khawaja

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Building a Vulnerable Web Application Lab 2. Kali Linux Installation 3. Delving Deep into the Usage of Kali Linux 4. All About Using Burp Suite 5. Understanding Web Application Vulnerabilities 6. Application Security Pre-Engagement 7. Application Threat Modeling 8. Source Code Review 9. Network Penetration Testing 10. Web Intrusion Tests 11. Pentest Automation Using Python 12. Nmap Cheat Sheet 13. Metasploit Cheat Sheet 14. Netcat Cheat Sheet 15. Networking Reference Section 16. Python Quick Reference 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

The Kali filesystem structure

The first thing that you need to start to understand is the Kali Linux filesystem structure, which is based on the Debian distribution filesystem. If you have used Microsoft Windows OS before, then the Linux structure will be a bit similar to it. For example, Windows starts with the C:\ directory, while the Linux OS starts with /, which is called the root directory.

The root directory (/) and the root home directory (/root) that you use in Kali are not the same. The latter is used as a home directory for the root user.

In Kali, we always use the root user to log in to our machine, and that means that you have no limits to what you can do in the OS. Every single piece in the Linux system is based on files; it's okay to look around, but be careful if you decide to change any of the configuration files.

The directory structure in Kali is based on...

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