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Re:Kali Linux 2023.1 introduces 'Purple' distro for defensiv... by sylens on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @04:52PM (#35158374)
Kali is not really meant as a general purpose desktop OS. Everything runs as root, IIRC (been years since I was pentesting).
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Re:Kali Linux 2023.1 introduces 'Purple' distro for defensiv... by Shared404 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:02PM (#35158544)
Until relatively recently it did.

Now there's a default kali user and you escalate via sudo, at least on the live systems.

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Re:Kali Linux 2023.1 introduces 'Purple' distro for defensiv... by mike_d on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @02:59AM (#35164830)
Kali used to run everything as root. Kali now has you run everything as root.
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