How To Install passwd on CentOS 8
passwd is An utility for setting or changing passwords using PAM
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install passwd on CentOS 8.
What is passwd
This package contains a system utility (passwd) which sets or changes passwords, using PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) library.
We can use yum or dnf to install passwd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install passwd.
Install passwd 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 passwd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install passwd
Install passwd 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 passwd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install passwd
How To Uninstall passwd on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the passwd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove passwd
passwd Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/pam.d/passwd
/usr/bin/passwd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/e17c1d9b2e20d7e8aeab9115074375eec5e8e1
/usr/share/doc/passwd
/usr/share/doc/passwd/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/passwd/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/passwd/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/passwd
/usr/share/licenses/passwd/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/lo/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/my/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/passwd.mo
/usr/share/man/ja/man1/passwd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/passwd.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install passwd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.