authorized-keys-test command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

authorized-keys-test: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: authorized-keys-test: command not found

Solutions to authorized-keys-test: command not found

How To Fix authorized-keys-test: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu authorized-keys-test is provided by libnet-ssh-authorizedkeysfile-perl package.

libnet-ssh-authorizedkeysfile-perl is:

Net::SSH::AuthorizedKeysFile reads and modifies authorized_keys files. authorized_keys files contain public keys and meta information to be used by ssh on the remote host to let users in without having to type their password.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install libnet-ssh-authorizedkeysfile-perl

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install libnet-ssh-authorizedkeysfile-perl.

sudo apt -y install libnet-ssh-authorizedkeysfile-perl

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install libnet-ssh-authorizedkeysfile-perl

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix authorized-keys-test command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.