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Knowing the OS information for a Linux host is crucial for privilege escalation. That's how you will know if the version used is vulnerable to privilege escalation (we will talk more about this topic in Chapter 10).

To display the operating system information of a Linux OS (which is Kali Linux in our case), I use the uname command, and along with it I display the contents of the /etc/issue configuration file:

$uname -a $cat /etc/issue root@kali:/# uname -a Linux kali 5.6.0-kali2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.6.14-2kali1 (2020-06-10) x86_64 GNU/Linux root@kali:/# cat /etc/issue Kali GNU/Linux Rolling \n \l