How To Install poppassd on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install poppassd on Debian 9.
What is poppassd
poppassd is:
This package provides a daemon for changing passwords on POP mail accounts, a feature common to Eudora and other MacOS/Win32 mail user agents. This feature is also commonly used for TCP loopback password changing from web scripting languages like PHP or Perl, so that the webserver process doesn’t need to be run as root (on in the shadow group).
This version of poppassd changes passwords via PAM (as opposed to other versions of the same daemon that used the newusers(8) application to change passwords), allowing for great flexibility.
There are three methods to install poppassd on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install poppassd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install poppassd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install poppassd
Install poppassd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install poppassd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install poppassd
Install poppassd Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install poppassd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install poppassd
How To Uninstall poppassd on Debian 9
To uninstall only the poppassd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove poppassd
Uninstall poppassd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall poppassd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove poppassd
Remove poppassd Configurations and Data
To remove poppassd configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge poppassd
Remove poppassd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove poppassd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge poppassd
Dependencies
poppassd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install poppassd package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.