How To Install authselect on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install authselect
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is authselect
Authselect is designed to be a replacement for authconfig but it takes a different approach to configure the system. Instead of letting the administrator build the PAM stack with a tool (which may potentially end up with a broken configuration), it would ship several tested stacks (profiles) that solve a use-case and are well tested and supported. At the same time, some obsolete features of authconfig are not supported by authselect.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install authselect
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install authselect.
Install authselect on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install authselect
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install authselect
Install authselect on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install authselect
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install authselect
How To Uninstall authselect on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the authselect
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove authselect
authselect Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/bash_completion.d/authselect-completion.sh
/usr/bin/authselect
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/03eb0f6fed61b38ee1666e9b2a45dacf3ecb8e
/usr/share/man/cs/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/cs/man8/authselect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man8/authselect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man8/authselect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/ja/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/ja/man8/authselect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/authselect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man8/authselect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man8/authselect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man8/authselect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/tr/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/tr/man8/authselect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/uk/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/uk/man8/authselect.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install authselect
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.