How To Install oathtool on Kali Linux
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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install oathtool using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install oathtoolInstall oathtool Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install oathtool using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install oathtoolInstall 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install oathtool using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install oathtoolHow To Uninstall oathtool on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the oathtool package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove oathtoolUninstall 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 oathtoolRemove oathtool Configurations and Data
To remove oathtool configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge oathtoolRemove 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 oathtoolDependencies
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.
