How To Install polenum on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is polenum

polenum is:

polenum is a Python script which uses the Impacket Library from CORE Security Technologies to extract the password policy information from a windows machine. This allows a non-windows (Linux, Mac OSX, BSD etc..) user to query the password policy of a remote windows box without the need to have access to a windows machine.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install polenum

Install polenum Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install polenum

Install polenum 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 polenum using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install polenum

How To Uninstall polenum on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove polenum

Uninstall polenum And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove polenum

Remove polenum Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge polenum

Remove polenum configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge polenum

Dependencies

polenum have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• polenum website

Summary

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