How To Install ipsilon-authpam on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipsilon-authpam in Fedora 36. ipsilon-authpam is PAM based login plugin

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipsilon-authpam on Fedora 36.

What is `ipsilon-authpam`

Provides a login plugin to authenticate against the local PAM stack

We can use yum or dnf to install ipsilon-authpam on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ipsilon-authpam.

Install ipsilon-authpam on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ipsilon-authpam using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ipsilon-authpam

Install ipsilon-authpam on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ipsilon-authpam using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ipsilon-authpam

How To Uninstall ipsilon-authpam on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the ipsilon-authpam package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ipsilon-authpam

ipsilon-authpam Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ipsilon/login/__pycache__/authpam.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ipsilon/login/__pycache__/authpam.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ipsilon/login/authpam.py
/usr/share/ipsilon/templates/install/pam
/usr/share/ipsilon/templates/install/pam/ipsilon.pamd

References

ipsilon-authpam website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipsilon-authpam on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).