I have set up a sudoer account but every time I boot Kali or attempt to log out of Kali, I go through the boot process and the last item is always something along the lines of 'Started up User Manager for UID 0.', as in root. Most of the tutorials I found online are about disabling the warning. The error message in wireshark is this one.

By a 'fresh install of live usb with persistence' I mean I just set up a live usb stick with kali linux and configured persistence following tutorials like this. UPDATE: Even when I find a way to log in as non-root (by waiting for the screen to lock and selecting a different user) I can't run wireshark because I don't have the permissions! And I can't seem to figure out a way to run wireshark with permissions without resorting to cli! What can go wrong with wireshark if you run it in root ?Īnd finally: is this some kind of hazing ritual with Kali? (Bill Labanovic jokes in his book on python that installing pip is a kind of hazing ritual for new programmers in python. I started in ubuntu years ago and have become so used to sudo I prefer it to root account).īut my question is: which is the proper way of doing things in Kali? Creating a sub-account and disabling the log in (thus, my sub question is how?) or disabling the warnings in wireshark. I also saw elsewhere that most of the tools in Kali require root permissions (I figured I'd just sudo everything. Also, the tool should still work when that error dialog shows up, It just warns you of the privileges you are assigning to the tool.īut when I create a user and try to log out as root, I get stuck in an autologin loop as root.

You can create a non-super user account or non root account and that should fix the error dialog. Giving root to such tools can go sideways should the tool malfunction. Yes it's recommended and advisable not to run such tools in super user or high permission account. When I opened wireshark (fresh install of live usb kali with persistence) for the first time it complained about me being root.

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