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Starting SSH on boot Kali 2.x

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SSH won’t start at boot on Kali 2.0?

Don’t worry, it’s because Kali 2.x is based on Debian 8, as opposed to Kali 1.x being based on Debian 7.

Kali 1.x uses init/update-rc.d;

Kali 2.x uses systemd/systemctl

For Kali 1.x, the command is

#update-rc.d -f ssh defaults

For Kali 2.x, the command is

#systemctl enable ssh.service

Starting ssh on boot kali 2.x
sudo systemctl enable ssh.service

And that’s it, you are done. Feel free to leave comments

Comments

2 responses to “Starting SSH on boot Kali 2.x”

  1. Shankar Narayana Damodaran Avatar
    Shankar Narayana Damodaran

    For people who want to enable the root user to do password authentication from SSH.

    1) Do the above step mentioned from the blog.
    2) Open the file `/etc/ssh/sshd_config` and look for these two lines and remove the leading # from these two below commands.
    PermitRootLogin yes
    PasswordAuthentication yes

  2. domato Avatar
    domato

    Best Solution!
    TkYou