Non-gui terminal background

As you might've noticed, during the installation, the live CD version of BackTrack had a nice background for the terminal before starting the Xorg server. If you miss this background when starting your OS, there is an easy fix for it.

Start your machine, type startx and wait for your gui to load (Gnome or KDE).
Once loaded, open up terminal and type:

fix-splash

Wait for the process to finish, reboot, and enjoy the terminal background.

Changing User Passwords

If you haven't installed BackTrack yet, follow the Getting Started Series on how to do that.

After you have installed BackTrack, you know that your username is root and your password is toor.
"toor" is the default password that comes with BackTrack for root, and since everybody knows that, it is very important you change your password.

To do that, open Terminal by either clicking on the Terminal icon at the top bar or pressing

CTRL+ALT+T

Once Terminal has opened, type in the following:

passwd

You will be prompted to enter a new UNIX password. Type in the the new password you wish to set for the root username. Note: You will not see the password being typed.

Press enter and repeat your password. Press enter again and you are all set.

Welcome

Welcome to my new blog about BackTrack 5.

This blog will be focusing only on the newest version of BackTrack 5 -> R3.
Here you will find tutorials on different tools of BackTrack as well as a walk-through on how to set up BackTrack and get it working.

Hope you enjoy this blog.