How To Install oddjob-mkhomedir.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install oddjob-mkhomedir.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. oddjob-mkhomedir.x86_64 is An oddjob helper which creates and populates home directories

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install oddjob-mkhomedir.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is oddjob-mkhomedir.x86_64

This package contains the oddjob helper which can be used by the pam_oddjob_mkhomedir module to create a home directory for a user at login-time.

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

Install oddjob-mkhomedir.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 oddjob-mkhomedir.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install oddjob-mkhomedir.x86_64

How To Uninstall oddjob-mkhomedir.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the oddjob-mkhomedir.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove oddjob-mkhomedir.x86_64

oddjob-mkhomedir.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/oddjob-mkhomedir.conf
/etc/oddjobd.conf.d/oddjobd-mkhomedir.conf
/usr/lib64/security/pam_oddjob_mkhomedir.so
/usr/libexec/oddjob
/usr/libexec/oddjob/mkhomedir
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-mkhomedir-0.31.5
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-mkhomedir-0.31.5/mkhomedirfor
/usr/share/doc/oddjob-mkhomedir-0.31.5/mkmyhomedir
/usr/share/man/man5/oddjob-mkhomedir.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/oddjobd-mkhomedir.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/pam_oddjob_mkhomedir.8.gz

References

Summary

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