How To Install voms-server on CentOS 8

voms-server is Virtual Organization Membership Service Server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install voms-server on CentOS 8.

What is voms-server

The Virtual Organization Membership Service (VOMS) is an attribute authority which serves as central repository for VO user authorization information, providing support for sorting users into group hierarchies, keeping track of their roles and other attributes in order to issue trusted attribute certificates and SAML assertions used in the Grid environment for authorization purposes. This package provides the VOMS service.

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

Install voms-server 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 voms-server using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install voms-server

Install voms-server 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 voms-server using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install voms-server

How To Uninstall voms-server on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the voms-server package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove voms-server

voms-server Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/grid-security/voms
/etc/voms
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd/fbd8f2ee16830c42110a4e171a9b0a8e4e2375
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/sbin/voms
/usr/share/doc/voms-server
/usr/share/doc/voms-server/README.Fedora
/usr/share/man/man8/voms.8.gz
/usr/share/voms/mysql2oracle
/usr/share/voms/upgrade1to2
/usr/share/voms/voms-ping
/usr/share/voms/voms.data
/usr/share/voms/voms_install_db
/usr/share/voms/voms_replica_master_setup.sh
/usr/share/voms/voms_replica_slave_setup.sh
/var/log/voms

References

Summary

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