How To Install mod_authnz_pam.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mod_authnz_pam.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mod_authnz_pam.x86_64 is PAM authorization checker and PAM Basic Authentication provider

Introduction

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

What is `mod_authnz_pam.x86_64`

mod_authnz_pam is a PAM authorization module, supplementing authentication done by other modules, for example mod_auth_kerb; it can also be used as full Basic Authentication provider which runs the [login, password] authentication through the PAM stack.

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

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

sudo yum -y install mod_authnz_pam.x86_64

How To Uninstall mod_authnz_pam.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove mod_authnz_pam.x86_64

mod_authnz_pam.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/httpd/conf.d/authnz_pam.conf
/etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/55-authnz_pam.conf
/usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_authnz_pam.so
/usr/share/doc/mod_authnz_pam-1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/mod_authnz_pam-1.1.0/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/mod_authnz_pam-1.1.0/README

References

mod_authnz_pam.x86_64 website

Summary

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