Installation

Requirements

Python 2.6:

First of all, download and extract the tar-ball:

wget -O elasticarmor.tar.gz https://github.com/NETWAYS/elasticarmor/archive/master.tar.gz
tar -xzvf elasticarmor.tar.gz && cd elasticarmor-master

Install ElasticArmor as Python module:

python2 setup.py install

Install the init script:

Debian

install -m 0744 etc/init.d/elasticarmor /etc/init.d/elasticarmor
update-rc.d elasticarmor defaults

Others

install -m 0744 etc/init.d/elasticarmor /etc/init.d/elasticarmor
chkconfig --add elasticarmor

Create the system user and group:

useradd -c "elasticarmor" -s /sbin/nologin -r elasticarmor

Done. You can now start configuring ElasticArmor.