How To Install login on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install login
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is login
login is:
This package provides some required infrastructure for logins and for changing effective user or group IDs, including:
- login, the program that invokes a user shell on a virtual terminal;
- nologin, a dummy shell for disabled user accounts;
- su, a basic tool for executing commands as root or another user. Task: minimal
Package: login Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: admin Installed-Size: 932 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Architecture: amd64 Multi-Arch: foreign Source: shadow Version: 1:4.8.1-1ubuntu5.20.04 Replaces: manpages-de (« 0.5-3), manpages-tr (« 1.0.5), manpages-zh (« 1.5.1-1) Pre-Depends: libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1), libc6 (>= 2.14), libcrypt1 (>= 1:4.1.0), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libpam-runtime, libpam-modules (>= 1.1.8-1) Breaks: util-linux (« 2.32-0.2~) Conflicts: amavisd-new (« 2.3.3-8), backupninja (« 0.9.3-5), echolot (« 2.1.8-4), gnunet (« 0.7.0c-2), python-4suite (« 0.99cvs20060405-1) Conffiles: /etc/login.defs 2a8f6cd8e00f54df72dc345a23f9db20 /etc/pam.d/login 5afbc06eb5f71fef25170cf3c936a442 Description-en: system login tools This package provides some required infrastructure for logins and for changing effective user or group IDs, including:
- login, the program that invokes a user shell on a virtual terminal;
- nologin, a dummy shell for disabled user accounts;
- su, a basic tool for executing commands as root or another user. Homepage: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow Original-Maintainer: Shadow package maintainers [email protected]
Package: login Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:4.8.1-1ubuntu5 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: required Essential: yes Section: admin Source: shadow Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Shadow package maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 932 Pre-Depends: libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1), libc6 (>= 2.14), libcrypt1 (>= 1:4.1.0), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libpam-runtime, libpam-modules (>= 1.1.8-1) Conflicts: amavisd-new (« 2.3.3-8), backupninja (« 0.9.3-5), echolot (« 2.1.8-4), gnunet (« 0.7.0c-2), python-4suite (« 0.99cvs20060405-1) Breaks: util-linux (« 2.32-0.2~) Replaces: manpages-de (« 0.5-3), manpages-tr (« 1.0.5), manpages-zh (« 1.5.1-1) Filename: pool/main/s/shadow/login_4.8.1-1ubuntu5_amd64.deb Size: 221228 MD5sum: 87b9ad4e3e8a076e693b385803547dde SHA1: 33e807447265fcde8addb44a9a9f776377221c21 SHA256: 825f3609ede6aceef2172e5069cee6df60ae16922ecfe262d13573849a3ca284 Homepage: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow Description-en: system login tools This package provides some required infrastructure for logins and for changing effective user or group IDs, including:
- login, the program that invokes a user shell on a virtual terminal;
- nologin, a dummy shell for disabled user accounts;
- su, a basic tool for executing commands as root or another user. Task: minimal
There are three methods to install login
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install login Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install login
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install login
Install login Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install login
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install login
Install login Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install login
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install login
How To Uninstall login on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the login
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove login
Uninstall login And Its Dependencies
To uninstall login
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove login
Remove login Configurations and Data
To remove login
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge login
Remove login configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove login
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge login
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install login
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.