How To Install cros-sudo-config on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cros-sudo-config on CentOS 8.
What is cros-sudo-config
sudo config for Chromium OS integration. This package installs default configuration for sudo to allow passwordless sudo access for the sudo group, and passwordless pkexec for the sudo group.
We can use yum or dnf to install cros-sudo-config on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cros-sudo-config.
Install cros-sudo-config 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 cros-sudo-config using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cros-sudo-config
Install cros-sudo-config 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 cros-sudo-config using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cros-sudo-config
How To Uninstall cros-sudo-config on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the cros-sudo-config package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cros-sudo-config
cros-sudo-config Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/sudoers.d/10-cros-nopasswd
/usr/share/doc/cros-sudo-config
/usr/share/doc/cros-sudo-config/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/cros-sudo-config
/usr/share/licenses/cros-sudo-config/LICENSE
/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/10-cros-nopasswd.pkla
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cros-sudo-config on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.