How To Install anope-ldap on CentOS 8

anope-ldap is LDAP modules for Anope IRC services

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install anope-ldap on CentOS 8.

What is anope-ldap

Anope is a set of IRC services designed for flexibility and ease of use. This package provides Anope modules to enable IRC commands such as IDENTIFY, RELEASE, RECOVER, GHOST, etc. to use LDAP to authenticate users. It provides a module to tie users to Anope opertypes when they identify via LDAP group membership, too.

We can use yum or dnf to install anope-ldap on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install anope-ldap.

Install anope-ldap on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install anope-ldap using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install anope-ldap

Install anope-ldap on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install anope-ldap using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install anope-ldap

How To Uninstall anope-ldap on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the anope-ldap package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove anope-ldap

anope-ldap Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6/acc9fa3f60c88fbfc68824b312d19cc7b0a03d
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/eefefb4fec188a522c977e164d6c71d9763ece
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/cdfef18e327a29fb3dd18d48f5610f94f8d1cf
/usr/lib64/anope/modules/m_ldap.so
/usr/lib64/anope/modules/m_ldap_authentication.so
/usr/lib64/anope/modules/m_ldap_oper.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install anope-ldap on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.