How To Install credential-sheets on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install credential-sheets on Kali Linux.

What is credential-sheets

credential-sheets is:

After mass import of user accounts (e.g. into LDAP) most site administrators have to create information sheets (or snippets) containing those new credentials (like username, password, policy of usage, etc.).

With this tiny tool, providing these pieces of information to multiple users, becomes really simple. Account data is taken from a CSV file and the sheets are output as PDF using easily configurable LaTeX template files.

There are three methods to install credential-sheets 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 credential-sheets Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install credential-sheets using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install credential-sheets

Install credential-sheets Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install credential-sheets using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install credential-sheets

Install credential-sheets 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 credential-sheets using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install credential-sheets

How To Uninstall credential-sheets on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the credential-sheets package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove credential-sheets

Uninstall credential-sheets And Its Dependencies

To uninstall credential-sheets and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove credential-sheets

Remove credential-sheets Configurations and Data

To remove credential-sheets configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge credential-sheets

Remove credential-sheets configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove credential-sheets configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge credential-sheets

Dependencies

credential-sheets have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• credential-sheets website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install credential-sheets package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.