How To Install keystone on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is keystone

keystone is:

This is the identity service used by OpenStack for authentication (authN) and high-level authorization (authZ). It currently supports token-based authN with user/service authZ, and is scalable to support OAuth, SAML, and OpenID in future versions. Out of the box, Keystone uses SQLite for its identity store database, with the option to connect to external LDAP.

This package contains the daemons.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install keystone

Install keystone Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install keystone

Install keystone 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 keystone using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install keystone

How To Uninstall keystone on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove keystone

Uninstall keystone And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove keystone

Remove keystone Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge keystone

Remove keystone configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge keystone

Dependencies

keystone have the following dependencies:

• adduser
• dbconfig-common
• debconf
• python3-keystone

References

• keystone website

Summary

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