Kali changed to a non-root user policy by default since the release of 2020.1.
This means:
During the installation of amd64 images, it will prompt you for a standard user account to be created.
Any default operating system credentials used during Live Boot, or pre-created image (like Virtual Machines & ARM) will be:
kali
kali
Vagrant image (based on their policy):
vagrant
vagrant
kali
<ssh key>
Some tools shipped with Kali, will use their own default hardcoded credentials (others will generate a new password the first time its used). The following tools have the default values:
beef
beef
/etc/beef-xss/config.yaml
MySQL
root
(blank)mysql_secure_installation
admin
<Generated during setup>
openvas-setup
postgres
postgres
/usr/share/metasploit-framework/config/database.yml
PowerShell-Empire/Starkiller
empireadmin
password123
For versions of Kali Linux older than 2020.1, here is our previous credential information and root policy information.
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