How To Install poppassd on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install poppassd on Debian 9. poppassd is password change server for Eudora and NUPOP

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.