How To Install yubikey-personalization on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install yubikey-personalization on Kali Linux. yubikey-personalization is Personalization tool for Yubikey OTP tokens

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yubikey-personalization on Kali Linux.

What is yubikey-personalization

yubikey-personalization is:

YubiKeys are USB tokens that act like keyboards and generate one-time or static passwords.

This is a tool to customize the tokens with your own cryptographic key, user id and so on.

There are three methods to install yubikey-personalization 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 yubikey-personalization Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install yubikey-personalization using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install yubikey-personalization

Install yubikey-personalization Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install yubikey-personalization using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install yubikey-personalization

Install yubikey-personalization 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 yubikey-personalization using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install yubikey-personalization

How To Uninstall yubikey-personalization on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the yubikey-personalization package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove yubikey-personalization

Uninstall yubikey-personalization And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove yubikey-personalization

Remove yubikey-personalization Configurations and Data

To remove yubikey-personalization configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge yubikey-personalization

Remove yubikey-personalization configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove yubikey-personalization configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yubikey-personalization

Dependencies

yubikey-personalization have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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