How To Install gss-ntlmssp on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gss-ntlmssp on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gss-ntlmssp
gss-ntlmssp is:
GSS-NTLMSSP is a GSSAPI mechanism plugin that implements NTLMSSP. NTLMSSP is a Microsoft Security Provider that implements various versions and falvors of the NTLM challenge-response family.
GSS-NTLMSSP, implements both NTLM and NTLMv2 and all the various security variants to the key exchange that Microsoft introduced and documented over time.
This code implements the NTLMSSP mechanism as a GSSAPI loadable mechanism and has been tested to work with MIT Kerberos’ 1.11 implementation of GSSAPI.
This package supplies the MIT GSSAPI plugin.
There are three methods to install gss-ntlmssp on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gss-ntlmssp Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gss-ntlmssp using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gss-ntlmssp
Install gss-ntlmssp Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gss-ntlmssp using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gss-ntlmssp
Install gss-ntlmssp Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gss-ntlmssp using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gss-ntlmssp
How To Uninstall gss-ntlmssp on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gss-ntlmssp package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gss-ntlmssp
Uninstall gss-ntlmssp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gss-ntlmssp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gss-ntlmssp
Remove gss-ntlmssp Configurations and Data
To remove gss-ntlmssp configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gss-ntlmssp
Remove gss-ntlmssp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gss-ntlmssp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gss-ntlmssp
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gss-ntlmssp package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
