3.2. Procedure – Installing Authentication Agent on Linux platforms

Purpose: 

This section describes the installation of the Authentication Agent on Ubuntu Linux operating systems.

Steps: 

1. As a first step, upgrade the apt package manager to support HTTPS connections. Make sure the following lines are in your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

   Note
   Replace username and password with your username and password received from . If you are installing Authentication Agent manually, use your personal account credentials.

   • For Ubuntu 10.04:

     deb https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@apt.balasys.hu/ubuntu-bionic/zorp-1.0latest satyr

2. Issue the following commands as root:

   apt update
   apt install apt

3. Install the authentication agent. Issue the following commands as root:

   apt update
   apt install satyr

   The above commands install the satyr (Authentication Agent) and the satyr-mpxd (Authentication Agent Multiplexer) packages.

4. Authentication Agent Multiplexer is automatically started after the installation. It can be stopped or started by issuing the systemctl stop satyr-mpxd or systemctl start satyr-mpxdcommands, respectively.

5. Authentication Agent is launched when X11 is started. It is important that it has to be started manually by running satyr-gtk.