How To Install mod_intercept_form_submit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mod_intercept_form_submit.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mod_intercept_form_submit.x86_64 is Apache module to intercept login form submission and run PAM

Introduction

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

What is mod_intercept_form_submit.x86_64

mod_intercept_form_submit can intercept submission of application login forms. It retrieves the login and password information from the POST HTTP request, runs PAM authentication with those credentials, and sets the REMOTE_USER environment variable if the authentication passes.

We can use yum to install mod_intercept_form_submit.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_intercept_form_submit.x86_64.

Install mod_intercept_form_submit.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_intercept_form_submit.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mod_intercept_form_submit.x86_64

How To Uninstall mod_intercept_form_submit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove mod_intercept_form_submit.x86_64

mod_intercept_form_submit.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/httpd/conf.d/intercept_form_submit.conf
/etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/55-intercept_form_submit.conf
/usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_intercept_form_submit.so
/usr/share/doc/mod_intercept_form_submit-1.1.0
/usr/share/doc/mod_intercept_form_submit-1.1.0/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/mod_intercept_form_submit-1.1.0/README
/usr/share/doc/mod_intercept_form_submit-1.1.0/form_based_authentication_with_mod_intercept_form_submit.txt
/usr/share/doc/mod_intercept_form_submit-1.1.0/typical_form_based_authentication.txt

References

Summary

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