How To Install authselect-compat on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install authselect-compat on CentOS 8.
What is authselect-compat
This package will replace /usr/sbin/authconfig with a tool that will translate some of the authconfig calls into authselect calls. It provides only minimum backward compatibility and users are encouraged to migrate to authselect completely.
We can use yum or dnf to install authselect-compat on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install authselect-compat.
Install authselect-compat 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 authselect-compat using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install authselect-compat
Install authselect-compat 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 authselect-compat using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install authselect-compat
How To Uninstall authselect-compat on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the authselect-compat package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove authselect-compat
authselect-compat Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/__pycache__/authcompat.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/__pycache__/authcompat.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/__pycache__/authcompat_ConfigSnippet.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/__pycache__/authcompat_ConfigSnippet.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/__pycache__/authcompat_EnvironmentFile.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/__pycache__/authcompat_EnvironmentFile.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/__pycache__/authcompat_Options.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/__pycache__/authcompat_Options.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/authcompat.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/authcompat_ConfigSnippet.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/authcompat_EnvironmentFile.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/authcompat_Options.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/snippets
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/snippets/authconfig-krb.conf
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/snippets/authconfig-sssd.conf
/usr/sbin/authconfig
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install authselect-compat on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.