Kali 2015-06-18

Fixing user accounts

When I created my new user login, I didn't do anything except test that I could log in. Once I tried to start doing stuff, I was getting permissions errors in my home directory. I needed to change permissions on my home directory. I also needed to change my shell from /bin/sh to /bin/bash.

To adjust permissions (as root):

# chown charles /home/charles

To change shell:

$ chsh

Adding dotfiles

Clone dotfile repo from github

Copy dotfiles into place

Need to make a Fabric file to do this - either copy dotfiles into github repo, or copy github repo into dotfiles

Had to edit git config because git version on Kali Linux was version 1, not version 2.

This led to problems with vimrc. Had to run mkdir -p ~/.vim/swap