How To Install sssd-ipa.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install sssd-ipa.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. sssd-ipa.x86_64 is The IPA back end of the SSSD

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sssd-ipa.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `sssd-ipa.x86_64`

Provides the IPA back end that the SSSD can utilize to fetch identity data from and authenticate against an IPA server.

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

Install sssd-ipa.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 sssd-ipa.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sssd-ipa.x86_64

How To Uninstall sssd-ipa.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the sssd-ipa.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove sssd-ipa.x86_64

sssd-ipa.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/sssd/libsss_ipa.so
/usr/libexec/sssd/selinux_child
/usr/share/licenses/sssd-ipa-1.16.5
/usr/share/licenses/sssd-ipa-1.16.5/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/sssd-ipa.5.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man5/sssd-ipa.5.gz
/usr/share/man/uk/man5/sssd-ipa.5.gz
/var/lib/sss/keytabs

References

sssd-ipa.x86_64 website

Summary

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