How To Install libsss_sudo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsss_sudo.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libsss_sudo.x86_64 is A library to allow communication between SUDO and SSSD

Introduction

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

What is `libsss_sudo.x86_64`

A utility library to allow communication between SUDO and SSSD

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

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

sudo yum -y install libsss_sudo.x86_64

How To Uninstall libsss_sudo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libsss_sudo.x86_64

libsss_sudo.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libsss_sudo.so
/usr/share/licenses/libsss_sudo-1.16.5
/usr/share/licenses/libsss_sudo-1.16.5/COPYING

References

libsss_sudo.x86_64 website

Summary

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