Lab Notes – 2025-11-26

Overview

Today was a tooling and workflow day. I worked inside Kali on VMware, tuned my terminal setup, and wrestled with tmux, Vim, and VPN behavior.

Activities

Kali + tmux + sessions

• who -a, finger, ps -t ttys001 for session tracking
• pkill -t ttys001 to terminate stale terminals
• tmux copy mode: ctrl+b [ , copy select enter, paste ctrl+b ]
• Disabled mouse mode in ~/.tmux.conf:

  set -g mouse off
  

• Reload tmux config:

  tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf
  

Vim macros

Stopped accidental recordings via q.

Meterpreter hashdump

Noted redirect vs spool behavior.

TryHackMe VPN

tun0 mismatch — need to investigate routing and DNS later.

Commands

who -a
pkill -t ttys001
tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf
ip a | grep tun0

Reflection

Today built operational muscle instead of shells. Small mastery compounds.