How To Install cyrus-sasl-plain on CentOS 8

cyrus-sasl-plain is PLAIN and LOGIN authentication support for Cyrus SASL PLAIN and LOGIN authentication support for Cyrus SASL

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cyrus-sasl-plain on CentOS 8.

What is cyrus-sasl-plain

The cyrus-sasl-plain package contains the Cyrus SASL plugins which support PLAIN and LOGIN authentication schemes. cyrus-sasl-plain 2.1.27 5.el8 x86_64 47 k cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-5.el8.src.rpm baseos PLAIN and LOGIN authentication support for Cyrus SASL https BSD with advertising The cyrus-sasl-plain package contains the Cyrus SASL plugins which support PLAIN and LOGIN authentication schemes.

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

Install cyrus-sasl-plain 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 cyrus-sasl-plain using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cyrus-sasl-plain

Install cyrus-sasl-plain 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 cyrus-sasl-plain using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cyrus-sasl-plain

How To Uninstall cyrus-sasl-plain on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the cyrus-sasl-plain package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cyrus-sasl-plain

cyrus-sasl-plain Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/c9d357ff3ca81c059fd96293dbc7e3f83ea132
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9/21f54c8bdca677fee94be0cd060781a0025515
/usr/lib64/sasl2/liblogin.so
/usr/lib64/sasl2/liblogin.so.3
/usr/lib64/sasl2/liblogin.so.3.0.0
/usr/lib64/sasl2/libplain.so
/usr/lib64/sasl2/libplain.so.3
/usr/lib64/sasl2/libplain.so.3.0.0
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/cc552ea53d5f68b76ff0798f6e1cfa0bf6ca71
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/5b4e588fe5abea2056a965c3fb68c22ff4fae5
/usr/lib/sasl2/liblogin.so
/usr/lib/sasl2/liblogin.so.3
/usr/lib/sasl2/liblogin.so.3.0.0
/usr/lib/sasl2/libplain.so
/usr/lib/sasl2/libplain.so.3
/usr/lib/sasl2/libplain.so.3.0.0

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cyrus-sasl-plain on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.