In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Password Pusher on POP! OS latest version.
Before we start the installation process, make sure that you have the following:
Password Pusher is a web application written in Ruby on Rails. Thus, we need to install the Ruby development environment, and other necessary dependencies to run it.
Open the terminal and install the dependencies using the following command:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ruby-full build-essential zlib1g-dev
Now to install the Rails gem, run:
sudo gem install rails
First, navigate to your preferred installation directory
cd /opt/
Then, clone the Password Pusher repository
sudo git clone https://github.com/pglombardo/passwordpusher.git passwordpusher
After that, navigate to the Password Pusher directory
cd passwordpusher
Once we have the Password Pusher source code in our system, we need to install the gems required by the application to function properly.
bundle install
Password Pusher uses a MySQL database to store the data. Thus, we need to configure our system to use it. Install MySQL with this command:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient-dev
Once MySQL is installed, log in with the root account.
sudo mysql -u root -p
Create a new password for the root account, and then create a new database named passwordpusher:
create database passwordpusher;
For security purposes, we need to create a non-root user that will have full access to the passwordpusher database.
CREATE USER 'passwordpusher'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'passwordpusher';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON passwordpusher.* TO 'passwordpusher'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
After the database configuration, we need to update the configuration file config/database.yml.
cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
Update the file with your MySQL database username and password.
sudo nano config/database.yml
To create the necessary tables in the passwordpusher database, run the migration command:
bundle exec rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
Password Pusher is a web application, so we need to install a web server software to manage HTTP connections. We will use Nginx, a popular HTTP server.
First, add the Nginx repository to your system:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys ABF5BD827BD9BF62
echo deb http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu/ `lsb_release -cs` nginx | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list
Update the package list and install Nginx
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nginx
After the installation, install the Passenger gem.
sudo gem install passenger
To enable the Nginx plugin, run:
sudo passenger-install-nginx-module --auto --auto-download --prefix=/usr/local/nginx
After the Passenger installation is complete, update the Nginx configuration file
sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Add the following lines at the end of the file:
http {
# ...
server {
listen 80;
server_name PASSWORD_PUSHER_SERVER_IP_OR_DOMAIN_NAME;
root /opt/passwordpusher/public;
passenger_enabled on;
passenger_ruby /usr/bin/ruby;
passenger_user www-data;
passenger_group www-data;
}
}
Replace PASSWORD_PUSHER_SERVER_IP_OR_DOMAIN_NAME with your server's IP address or domain name.
Start the Nginx server by running:
sudo service nginx start
Now, open your web browser and enter your server's IP address or domain name.
You should see the Password Pusher login page.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Password Pusher on your POP! OS system.
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