How To Install open-iscsi on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install open-iscsi on Kali Linux.
What is open-iscsi
open-iscsi is:
The Open-iSCSI project is a high-performance, transport independent, multi-platform implementation of RFC3720 iSCSI.
Open-iSCSI is partitioned into user and kernel parts.
The kernel portion of Open-iSCSI is a from-scratch code licensed under GPL. The kernel part implements iSCSI data path (that is, iSCSI Read and iSCSI Write), and consists of three loadable modules: scsi_transport_iscsi.ko, libiscsi.ko and iscsi_tcp.ko.
User space contains the entire control plane: configuration manager, iSCSI Discovery, Login and Logout processing, connection-level error processing, Nop-In and Nop-Out handling, and (in the future:) Text processing, iSNS, SLP, Radius, etc.
The user space Open-iSCSI consists of a daemon process called iscsid, and a management utility iscsiadm.
This package includes a daemon, iscsid, and a management utility, iscsiadm.
There are three methods to install open-iscsi 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 open-iscsi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install open-iscsi using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install open-iscsiInstall open-iscsi Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install open-iscsi using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install open-iscsiInstall open-iscsi 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 open-iscsi using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install open-iscsiHow To Uninstall open-iscsi on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the open-iscsi package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove open-iscsiUninstall open-iscsi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall open-iscsi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove open-iscsiRemove open-iscsi Configurations and Data
To remove open-iscsi configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge open-iscsiRemove open-iscsi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove open-iscsi configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge open-iscsiDependencies
open-iscsi have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install open-iscsi package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.