How To Install gssproxy.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gssproxy.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gssproxy.x86_64 is GSSAPI Proxy

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gssproxy.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `gssproxy.x86_64`

A proxy for GSSAPI credential handling

We can use yum to install gssproxy.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gssproxy.x86_64.

Install gssproxy.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 gssproxy.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gssproxy.x86_64

How To Uninstall gssproxy.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gssproxy.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gssproxy.x86_64

gssproxy.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/gss/mech.d/gssproxy.conf
/etc/gssproxy
/etc/gssproxy/99-nfs-client.conf
/etc/gssproxy/gssproxy.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/system/gssproxy.service
/usr/lib64/gssproxy/proxymech.so
/usr/sbin/gssproxy
/usr/share/doc/gssproxy-0.7.0
/usr/share/doc/gssproxy-0.7.0/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/gssproxy.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/gssproxy-mech.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/gssproxy.8.gz
/var/lib/gssproxy
/var/lib/gssproxy/clients
/var/lib/gssproxy/rcache

References

gssproxy.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gssproxy.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.