remctl-shell command not found

Introduction

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

remctl-shell: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: remctl-shell: command not found

Solutions to remctl-shell: command not found

How To Fix remctl-shell: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu remctl-shell is provided by remctl-server package.

remctl-server is:

remctl is a client/server protocol for executing specific commands on a remote system with Kerberos authentication. The allowable commands must be listed in a server configuration file, and the executable run on the server may be mapped to any command name. Each command is also associated with an ACL containing a list of Kerberos principals authorized to run that command.

This package contains the server (remctld) and the SSH backend (remctl-shell).

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

sudo apt-get -y install remctl-server

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

You can also use apt command to install remctl-server.

sudo apt -y install remctl-server

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

sudo aptitude install remctl-server

Summary

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