How To Install kstart on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kstart
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is kstart
k5start is a modified version of kinit which can use keytabs to authenticate, can run as a daemon and wake up periodically to refresh a ticket, and can run single commands with its own authentication credentials and refresh those credentials until the command exits.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install kstart
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kstart.
Install kstart 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 kstart
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kstart
Install kstart 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 kstart
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kstart
How To Uninstall kstart on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the kstart
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kstart
kstart Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/k5start
/usr/bin/krenew
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/2e898eb38bb9df3c2bccd6bdcafdea2731729c
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/5123815978192b8f6bbdc0929525b039cf8450
/usr/share/doc/kstart
/usr/share/doc/kstart/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/kstart/README
/usr/share/licenses/kstart
/usr/share/licenses/kstart/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/k5start.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/krenew.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kstart
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.