How To Install login on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install login on Ubuntu 20.04. login is system login tools system login tools system login tools

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

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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.