How To Install libpam-oath on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpam-oath
on Kali Linux.
What is libpam-oath
libpam-oath is:
OATH Toolkit provide components to build one-time password authentication systems. It contains shared C libraries, command line tools and a PAM module. Supported technologies include the event-based HOTP algorithm (RFC 4226), the time-based TOTP algorithm (RFC 6238), and Portable Symmetric Key Container (PSKC, RFC 6030) to manage secret key data. OATH stands for Open AuTHentication, which is the organization that specify the algorithms.
This package contain a PAM module to authenticate users against a local file-based OATH database.
There are three methods to install libpam-oath
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 libpam-oath Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libpam-oath
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libpam-oath
Install libpam-oath Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libpam-oath
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libpam-oath
Install libpam-oath 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 libpam-oath
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libpam-oath
How To Uninstall libpam-oath on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the libpam-oath
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libpam-oath
Uninstall libpam-oath And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libpam-oath
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpam-oath
Remove libpam-oath Configurations and Data
To remove libpam-oath
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libpam-oath
Remove libpam-oath configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libpam-oath
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpam-oath
Dependencies
libpam-oath have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpam-oath
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.