How To Install openssh-keycat.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssh-keycat.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. openssh-keycat.x86_64 is A mls keycat backend for openssh

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install openssh-keycat.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `openssh-keycat.x86_64`

OpenSSH mls keycat is backend for using the authorized keys in the openssh in the mls mode.

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

Install openssh-keycat.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 openssh-keycat.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install openssh-keycat.x86_64

How To Uninstall openssh-keycat.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the openssh-keycat.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove openssh-keycat.x86_64

openssh-keycat.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/pam.d/ssh-keycat
/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-keycat
/usr/share/doc/openssh-keycat-7.4p1
/usr/share/doc/openssh-keycat-7.4p1/HOWTO.ssh-keycat

References

openssh-keycat.x86_64 website

Summary

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