Ansible Role: Netcat

This Ansible role installs Netcat on Linux.

Features

• ✔️ Installs Netcat
• ✔️ Choose which version to install:
  • ncat - A better version of Netcat, made for the Nmap Project
  • cryptcat - A lightweight version of Netcat with encryption
  • openbsd
  • traditional
• ✔️ Creates shortcuts for nc and netcat if they don't exist
• ✔️ Verified with Molecule testing

Note: There are different versions of "netcat". For example, Debian has netcat-openbsd or netcat-traditional, which are not available for CentOS. That's why only the two versions mentioned above can be installed, as they are available on both Debian and CentOS. This way, you will have the same experience on all your machines.

Supported Platforms

• ✔️ Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)
• ✔️ Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal)
• ✔️ CentOS 7
• ✔️ CentOS 8

Requirements

None

Role Variables

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

1. The simplest version

   ---
   - hosts: all
     roles:
       - marverix.netcat
   

2. Install ncat and cryptcat; shortcuts should point to cryptcat

   ---
   - hosts: all
     roles:
       - role: marverix.netcat
         vars:
           netcat_install:
             - ncat
             - cryptcat
           netcat_alias_to: cryptcat
   

License

ISC