How To Install openssh-ldap on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssh-ldap on Rocky Linux 8. openssh-ldap is A LDAP support for open source SSH server daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssh-ldap on Rocky Linux 8.

What is openssh-ldap

OpenSSH LDAP backend is a way how to distribute the authorized tokens among the servers in the network.

We can use yum or dnf to install openssh-ldap on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install openssh-ldap.

Install openssh-ldap 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 openssh-ldap using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install openssh-ldap

Install openssh-ldap 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 openssh-ldap using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install openssh-ldap

How To Uninstall openssh-ldap on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the openssh-ldap package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove openssh-ldap

openssh-ldap Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/cf5d18ae0bd534395c01d563f141356762b788
/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-ldap-helper
/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-ldap-wrapper
/usr/share/doc/openssh-ldap
/usr/share/doc/openssh-ldap/HOWTO.ldap-keys
/usr/share/doc/openssh-ldap/ldap.conf
/usr/share/doc/openssh-ldap/openssh-lpk-openldap.ldif
/usr/share/doc/openssh-ldap/openssh-lpk-openldap.schema
/usr/share/doc/openssh-ldap/openssh-lpk-sun.ldif
/usr/share/doc/openssh-ldap/openssh-lpk-sun.schema
/usr/share/man/man5/ssh-ldap.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ssh-ldap-helper.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssh-ldap on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.