How To Install ipa-client.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipa-client.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. ipa-client.x86_64 is IPA authentication for use on clients

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipa-client.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `ipa-client.x86_64`

IPA is an integrated solution to provide centrally managed Identity (users, hosts, services), Authentication (SSO, 2FA), and Authorization (host access control, SELinux user roles, services). The solution provides features for further integration with Linux based clients (SUDO, automount) and integration with Active Directory based infrastructures (Trusts). If your network uses IPA for authentication, this package should be installed on every client machine. This package provides command-line tools for IPA administrators.

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

Install ipa-client.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 ipa-client.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ipa-client.x86_64

How To Uninstall ipa-client.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the ipa-client.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove ipa-client.x86_64

ipa-client.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/bash_completion.d
/etc/bash_completion.d/ipa
/usr/bin/ipa
/usr/sbin/ipa-certupdate
/usr/sbin/ipa-client-automount
/usr/sbin/ipa-client-install
/usr/sbin/ipa-getkeytab
/usr/sbin/ipa-join
/usr/sbin/ipa-rmkeytab
/usr/share/doc/ipa-client-4.6.8
/usr/share/doc/ipa-client-4.6.8/Contributors.txt
/usr/share/doc/ipa-client-4.6.8/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ipa-client-4.6.8
/usr/share/licenses/ipa-client-4.6.8/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa-certupdate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa-client-automount.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa-client-install.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa-getkeytab.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa-join.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa-rmkeytab.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa.1.gz

References

ipa-client.x86_64 website

Summary

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