How To Install tinysshd on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

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 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 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 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 tinysshd using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tinysshd

How To Uninstall tinysshd on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tinysshd

Remove tinysshd Configurations and Data

To remove tinysshd configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• libc6

References

• tinysshd website

Summary

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