pwauth command not found

Introduction

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

pwauth: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pwauth: command not found

Solutions to pwauth: command not found

How To Fix pwauth: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pwauth is provided by pwauth package.

pwauth is:

Pwauth is an authenticator designed to be used with mod_auth_external or mod_authnz_external and the Apache HTTP Daemon to support reasonably secure web authentication out of the system password database on most versions of Unix. Particularly - secure authentication against PAM.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pwauth

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

You can also use apt command to install pwauth.

sudo apt -y install pwauth

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

sudo aptitude install pwauth

Summary

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