How To Install cyrus-sasl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cyrus-sasl.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2.
What is cyrus-sasl.x86_64
The cyrus-sasl package contains the Cyrus implementation of SASL. SASL is the Simple Authentication and Security Layer, a method for adding authentication support to connection-based protocols.
We can use yum
to install cyrus-sasl.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cyrus-sasl.x86_64.
Install cyrus-sasl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install cyrus-sasl.x86_64
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cyrus-sasl.x86_64
How To Uninstall cyrus-sasl.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the cyrus-sasl.x86_64
package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove cyrus-sasl.x86_64
cyrus-sasl.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/sysconfig/saslauthd
/run/saslauthd
/usr/lib/systemd/system/saslauthd.service
/usr/sbin/pluginviewer
/usr/sbin/saslauthd
/usr/sbin/testsaslauthd
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.26
/usr/share/doc/cyrus-sasl-2.1.26/LDAP_SASLAUTHD
/usr/share/man/man8/pluginviewer.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/saslauthd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sasldblistusers2.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/saslpasswd2.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/testsaslauthd.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cyrus-sasl.x86_64
on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.