Installing NATPass

Introduction:
NATPass pretty much installs itself with a few exceptions:

  1. It installs itself into /usr/local/natpass/ .
    So download it to something like /tmp
  2. It tries to "glean" the domain from the Unix Settings but this doesn't always work.
    So you have to modify the "domain=" line/s in /usr/local/natpass/cfg/natpass.cfg
  3. It doesn't start itself automatically.
    So you have to start it with the following command: /usr/local/natpass/bin/natpass_ctl start
  4. If you change the/usr/local/natpass.cfg, you have to restart natpass.
    Use the following command:
    /usr/local/natpass/bin/natpass_ctl restart
  5. The /usr/local/natpass/logs/natpass.log file gets HUGE.
    So the install script sets up a /etc/logrotate.d/natpass file to rotate it daily.
    SUSE Only: SUSE has a bug in its logrotate implementation where you can not use "olddir". Delete this line from /etc/logrotate.d/natpass on SUSE machines.
    Watch this file for a couple of days to make sure logrotate is working correctly.
Assumptions:
None:

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  1. Find the location of the Latest Version for your flavor of UNIX.
    This is the download page.
    Note that these are links to the files.
  2. Install the software from a shell prompt on your LINUX machine.
    Here is a capture file of an install of NATPass.


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