Live boot USB username/password doesn't work KALI LINUX

I've made a live USB of Kali (latest amd64, using RUFUS), and it boots up fine and everything, but when I try any of the LIVE versions (I can install it fine, I would much more like to have it live though), it asks for my username/password, and when I type in root / toor or any other solutions I've found online, none worked.

Am I doing something wrong?

Your help would be greatly appreciated, best regards.

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3 Answers

Try the solution below as it has worked for me -

• Select Other user

• Use root as the username

• Enter the root administrator password you entered during the install.

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The password is kali. "kali" without the quotes...

Either

Type in the terminal

sudo su

it will ask for your userpassword and make you root/superuser

Or chroot to the harddrive and change the password

(Note, recently kali Linux no longer uses a “root for everything model” meaning if your version is new enough Sudo su may not work)