Setup the Student Virtual Machine

Introduction

We need to have a good setup for all the software and tools we will be using during this training. By having one common operating system pre-configured to play with, we can focus on the training rather than trying to troubleshoot random setup issues etc.

What are we going to cover?

This chapter will cover the steps needed to import and connect to the Virtual Machine.

We have installed and configured a Zorin, a modern Linux based distribution, with standard software that helps us do security testing of cloud servers and applications.

List of the software

• Zorin 16.1

• Xfce desktop environment

• Open SSH server

• cURL

• htop

• Python 3

• python-pip

• awscli (python package)

• boto3 (python package)

• GCloud Cli

• VirtualBox Guest additions

• Firefox browser

• Burpsuite Community Edition

• bash_profile

• codenamize

• Ansible

• Terraform

Steps to setup

Import the OVA into VirtualBox

OVA Import

Reinitialize MAC addresses

Reinitialize MAC

Login with credentials

username: student
password: student

Check if you are connected to the Internet

ping 8.8.8.8

ping www.google.com

Time Correction Commands

Install ntp in your student machine with the following command

sudo apt install ntp 

If, and only if, the clock on this virtual machine syncs out of the correct time then run the following commands from a terminal

sudo -i
echo -n Asia/Kolkata > /etc/timezone
rm /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Kolkata /etc/localtime
sudo service ntp stop
sudo ntpdate -s time.nist.gov
sudo service ntp start

Note: Reboot the machine if the time change is not automatic

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