How To Install nuauth-utils on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nuauth-utils on Debian 9.
What is nuauth-utils
nuauth-utils is:
NuFW is an authenticating firewall based on netfilter’s NFQUEUE target. It allows one to write filtering rules based on user identity, in addition to classical network criteria. Unless other solutions, NuFW uses a strict security model and can apply different access rules to users connected on the same host, for example.
nuaclgen is a perl script that helps generate LDAP ACLs for use with nuauth, the nufw authentication daemon. nuauth_command is a Python script to control the nuauth daemon.
There are three methods to install nuauth-utils on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nuauth-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nuauth-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nuauth-utils
Install nuauth-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nuauth-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nuauth-utils
Install nuauth-utils 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install nuauth-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nuauth-utils
How To Uninstall nuauth-utils on Debian 9
To uninstall only the nuauth-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nuauth-utils
Uninstall nuauth-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nuauth-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nuauth-utils
Remove nuauth-utils Configurations and Data
To remove nuauth-utils configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nuauth-utils
Remove nuauth-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nuauth-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nuauth-utils
Dependencies
nuauth-utils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nuauth-utils package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.