How To Install usermode on CentOS 8

usermode is Tools for certain user account management tasks

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install usermode on CentOS 8.

What is usermode

The usermode package contains the userhelper program, which can be used to allow configured programs to be run with superuser privileges by ordinary users.

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

Install usermode 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 usermode using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install usermode

Install usermode 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 usermode using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install usermode

How To Uninstall usermode on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the usermode package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove usermode

usermode Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/security/console.apps/config-util
/usr/bin/consolehelper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/71
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/4681eb4cbff7eea57aca70d210cd760e7f08a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/c85fbbb1296f587442ab869432aa0122f4969d
/usr/sbin/userhelper
/usr/share/doc/usermode
/usr/share/doc/usermode/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/usermode/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/usermode/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/usermode/README
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/consolehelper.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/userhelper.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install usermode on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.