How To Install freeradius on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeradius
on Kali Linux.
What is freeradius
freeradius is:
FreeRADIUS is a high-performance RADIUS server with support for:
- Authentication by local files, SQL, Kerberos, LDAP, PAM, and more.
- Powerful policy configuration language.
- Proxying and replicating requests by any criteria.
- Support for many EAP types; TLS, PEAP, TTLS, etc.
- Many vendor-specific attributes.
- Regexp matching in string attributes. and lots more.
There are three methods to install freeradius
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 freeradius Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install freeradius
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install freeradius Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install freeradius
using apt
by running the following command:
Install freeradius 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.
After updating apt database, We can install freeradius
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall freeradius on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the freeradius
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall freeradius And Its Dependencies
To uninstall freeradius
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove freeradius Configurations and Data
To remove freeradius
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove freeradius configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove freeradius
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
freeradius have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeradius
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.