How To Install radsecproxy on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install radsecproxy on Rocky Linux 8. radsecproxy is Generic RADIUS proxy with RadSec support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install radsecproxy on Rocky Linux 8.

What is radsecproxy

radsecproxy is a generic RADIUS proxy that in addition to usual RADIUS UDP transport, also supports TLS (RadSec), as well as RADIUS over TCP and DTLS. The aim is for the proxy to have sufficient features to be flexible, while at the same time to be small, efficient and easy to configure.

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

Install radsecproxy 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 radsecproxy using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install radsecproxy

Install radsecproxy 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 radsecproxy using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install radsecproxy

How To Uninstall radsecproxy on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the radsecproxy package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove radsecproxy

radsecproxy Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/logrotate.d/radsecproxy
/etc/pki/radsecproxy
/etc/radsecproxy.conf
/run/radsecproxy
/usr/bin/radsecproxy-conf
/usr/bin/radsecproxy-hash
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/51
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/3644af26287ab135dfec3726eced6cbec95ce9
/usr/lib/.build-id/68
/usr/lib/.build-id/68/b9066111295264a696c4d6ef9b1bf425e0e057
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3/ecb9c904ad57e5f12db0f61521d130b37b7ee4
/usr/lib/systemd/system/radsecproxy.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/radsecproxy.conf
/usr/sbin/radsecproxy
/usr/share/doc/radsecproxy
/usr/share/doc/radsecproxy/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/radsecproxy/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/radsecproxy/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/radsecproxy/radsecproxy.conf-example
/usr/share/doc/radsecproxy/tools
/usr/share/doc/radsecproxy/tools/README
/usr/share/doc/radsecproxy/tools/naptr-eduroam.sh
/usr/share/doc/radsecproxy/tools/radsec-dynsrv.sh
/usr/share/licenses/radsecproxy
/usr/share/licenses/radsecproxy/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man5/radsecproxy.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/radsecproxy-hash.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/radsecproxy.8.gz
/var/lib/radsecproxy
/var/log/radsecproxy

References

Summary

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