How To Install eurephia on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eurephia
on Kali Linux.
What is eurephia
eurephia is:
This plug-in enhances OpenVPN by adding user name and password authentication. An eurephia user account is a combination of minimum one OpenVPN SSL certificate and a user name with a password assigned. It is also possible to setup several eurephia user names to use a shared OpenVPN certificate.
In addition, eurephia will blacklist IP addresses, certificates and user names on too many failed attempts and it supports dynamic update of iptables rules which restricts network access per connection.
All information is stored in a database and all changes to the accounts will be effective immediately. At the moment eurephia supports the SQLite database.
There are three methods to install eurephia
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install eurephia Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install eurephia
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install eurephia
Install eurephia Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install eurephia
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install eurephia
Install eurephia Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install eurephia
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eurephia
How To Uninstall eurephia on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the eurephia
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove eurephia
Uninstall eurephia And Its Dependencies
To uninstall eurephia
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove eurephia
Remove eurephia Configurations and Data
To remove eurephia
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge eurephia
Remove eurephia configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove eurephia
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eurephia
Dependencies
eurephia have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eurephia
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.