How To Install opensysusers on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is opensysusers

opensysusers is:

Opensysusers uses the files from sysusers.d directory to create system users and groups and to add users to groups, at package installation or boot time. This tool may be used to allocate system users and groups only, it is not useful for creating non-system (i.e. regular, “human”) users and groups, as it accesses /etc/passwd and /etc/group directly, bypassing any more complex user databases, for example any database involving NIS or LDAP.

Opensysusers is an alternative implementation of systemd-sysusers that may work on systems with or without systemd installed.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install opensysusers

Install opensysusers Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install opensysusers

Install opensysusers 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 opensysusers using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install opensysusers

How To Uninstall opensysusers on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove opensysusers

Uninstall opensysusers And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove opensysusers

Remove opensysusers Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge opensysusers

Remove opensysusers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge opensysusers

Dependencies

opensysusers have the following dependencies:

References

• opensysusers website

Summary

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