How To Install tinysshd on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tinysshd
on Debian 11.
What is tinysshd
tinysshd is:
TinySSH is a minimalistic SSH server which implements only a subset of SSHv2 features. TinySSH supports only secure cryptography (minimum 128-bit security, protected against cache-timing attacks) ED25519, Curve25519(X25519), CHACHA20POLY1305. TinySSH implements only safe public-key authentication, password or hostbased authentication is not implemented. TinySSH has less than 100000 words of code, so it’s very easily auditable.
There are three methods to install tinysshd
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tinysshd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tinysshd
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tinysshd
Install tinysshd Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tinysshd
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tinysshd
Install tinysshd 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 tinysshd
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tinysshd
How To Uninstall tinysshd on Debian 11
To uninstall only the tinysshd
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tinysshd
Uninstall tinysshd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tinysshd
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tinysshd
Remove tinysshd Configurations and Data
To remove tinysshd
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tinysshd
Remove tinysshd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tinysshd
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tinysshd
Dependencies
tinysshd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tinysshd
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.