Installation guide for Lupasafe Agent on Linux
Objective: this installation guide helps you to install the Lupasafe agent on a Linux distros (e.g. Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu). Note: This is the generic installation guide using the installer script. If you prefer to use packages from a repository (Debian based systems are supported at the moment), skip to the end of this article.
Requirements for the client:
- API account and password from Lupasafe
- Required operating system is Linux: Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS
- Required software is zip (will be installed)
- Installer requires to be installed using sudo or as root
- The Lupasafe agent requires access via SSL, port 443
What does the installer do?
- The installer creates a system user named Lupasafe ;
- A systemd (time) service is added
- The service will run twice a day
- A private/public key pair will be generated to encrypt a random password
- This password is used to zip the stack data and encrypt it
- Twice daily this data will be shared via the Lupasafe api
- Connection is made to https://backend.lupasafe.com/api/
- The private/public key pair will be renewed every week (per server)
- Log information will be written to the system log
Steps to install:
Get the installer
wget --no-check-certificate https://lupasafe.com/client_software/latest/Skopos_client_linux.tar.gz
Extract the files
tar -xvf Skopos_client_linux.tar.gz
Navigate to the /skopos/Server folder
cd skopos/Server
Start the installer
sudo ./install.sh
Follow the installer and
- Enter your API username
- Enter your API password
Using a repository
If you prefer to install the Lupasafe agent from our repository (at the moment we only provide a repository for Debian based systems), you can use the following commands (requirements are the same as described above):
For Intel/AMD based architecture:
Add the repository to the 'apt' sources lists
sudo echo 'deb https://www.lupasafe.com/client_software/packages/debian/dists/amd64/ /' > sudo /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skoposclient.list
Download the public key and add the public key to the known and trusted keys
sudo curl -L https://www.lupasafe.com/client_software/packages/debian/dists/amd64/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -
Use apt update and install to update the repositories and install the Lupasafe client
sudo apt update
sudo apt install skoposclient
Follow the installer and
- Enter your API username
- Enter your API password
For ARM based architecture:
Add the repository to the 'apt' sources lists
sudo echo 'deb https://www.lupasafe.com/client_software/packages/debian/dists/arm/ /' > sudo /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skoposclient.list
Download the public key and add the public key to the known and trusted keys
sudo curl -L https://www.lupasafe.com/client_software/packages/debian/dists/arm/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -
Use 'apt' update and install to update the repositories and install the Lupasafe client
sudo apt update
sudo apt install skoposclient
Follow the installer and
- Enter your API username
- Enter your API password
New version can be installed through the regular apt commando's.