How To Install enum4linux on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install enum4linux on Kali Linux.

What is enum4linux

enum4linux is:

Enum4linux is a tool for enumerating information from Windows and Samba systems. It attempts to offer similar functionality to enum.exe formerly available from www.bindview.com.

It is written in PERL and is basically a wrapper around the Samba tools smbclient, rpclient, net and nmblookup. The samba package is therefore a dependency.

Features include:

 RID Cycling (When RestrictAnonymous is set to 1 on Windows 2000)
 User Listing (When RestrictAnonymous is set to 0 on Windows 2000)
 Listing of Group Membership Information
 Share Enumeration
 Detecting if host is in a Workgroup or a Domain
 Identifying the remote Operating System
 Password Policy Retrieval (using polenum)

There are three methods to install enum4linux 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 enum4linux Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install enum4linux using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install enum4linux

Install enum4linux Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install enum4linux using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install enum4linux

Install enum4linux 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 enum4linux using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install enum4linux

How To Uninstall enum4linux on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the enum4linux package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove enum4linux

Uninstall enum4linux And Its Dependencies

To uninstall enum4linux and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove enum4linux

Remove enum4linux Configurations and Data

To remove enum4linux configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge enum4linux

Remove enum4linux configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove enum4linux configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge enum4linux

Dependencies

enum4linux have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• enum4linux website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install enum4linux package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.