How To Install oathtool on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install oathtool on Kali Linux. oathtool is OATH Toolkit oathtool command line tool

Introduction

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

What is oathtool

oathtool is:

OATH Toolkit provide components to build one-time password authentication systems. It contains shared C libraries, command line tools and a PAM module. Supported technologies include the event-based HOTP algorithm (RFC 4226), the time-based TOTP algorithm (RFC 6238), and Portable Symmetric Key Container (PSKC, RFC 6030) to manage secret key data. OATH stands for Open AuTHentication, which is the organization that specify the algorithms.

This package contains the OATH Toolkit “oathtool” command line tool.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install oathtool

Install oathtool Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install oathtool

Install oathtool 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 oathtool using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install oathtool

How To Uninstall oathtool on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove oathtool

Uninstall oathtool And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove oathtool

Remove oathtool Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge oathtool

Remove oathtool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge oathtool

Dependencies

oathtool have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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