How To Install samba-winbind-clients on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-winbind-clients on CentOS 8.
What is samba-winbind-clients
The samba-winbind-clients package provides the wbinfo and ntlm_auth tool.
We can use yum or dnf to install samba-winbind-clients on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install samba-winbind-clients.
Install samba-winbind-clients 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 samba-winbind-clients using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install samba-winbind-clients
Install samba-winbind-clients 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 samba-winbind-clients using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install samba-winbind-clients
How To Uninstall samba-winbind-clients on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the samba-winbind-clients package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove samba-winbind-clients
samba-winbind-clients Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/ntlm_auth
/usr/bin/wbinfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/41/65152c1f9b51823dff5c34a5ed6d91d4474c8f
/usr/lib/.build-id/76
/usr/lib/.build-id/76/ba8d925d42db6afca69d9b6141e9a7ea57ca09
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/09733a4648397a5f66a5e7a0e55ad4db7409e6
/usr/lib64/samba/krb5/winbind_krb5_localauth.so
/usr/share/man/man1/ntlm_auth.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wbinfo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/winbind_krb5_localauth.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-winbind-clients on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.