How To Install policyd-rate-limit on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install policyd-rate-limit on Kali Linux.

What is policyd-rate-limit

policyd-rate-limit is:

policyd-rate-limit is a simple postfix policy daemon written in python3 allowing to limit the number of mails a user can send over time. Users are identified either via their sasl usernames or their ip addresses. Limitation rules are a list of couples (number of mails, number of seconds). If a user has sent more than number of mails in number of seconds, a configurable error is returned to the user.

There are three methods to install policyd-rate-limit 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 policyd-rate-limit Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install policyd-rate-limit

Install policyd-rate-limit Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install policyd-rate-limit using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install policyd-rate-limit

Install policyd-rate-limit 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 policyd-rate-limit using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install policyd-rate-limit

How To Uninstall policyd-rate-limit on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the policyd-rate-limit package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove policyd-rate-limit

Uninstall policyd-rate-limit And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove policyd-rate-limit

Remove policyd-rate-limit Configurations and Data

To remove policyd-rate-limit configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge policyd-rate-limit

Remove policyd-rate-limit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove policyd-rate-limit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge policyd-rate-limit

Dependencies

policyd-rate-limit have the following dependencies:

• init-system-helpers
• python3-yaml
• python3

References

• policyd-rate-limit website

Summary

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