How To Install xrootd-scitokens on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xrootd-scitokens on CentOS 8.
What is xrootd-scitokens
This ACC (authorization) plugin for the XRootD framework utilizes the SciTokens library to validate and extract authorization claims from a SciToken passed during a transfer. Configured appropriately, this allows the XRootD server admin to delegate authorization decisions for a subset of the namespace to an external issuer.
We can use yum or dnf to install xrootd-scitokens on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xrootd-scitokens.
Install xrootd-scitokens 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 xrootd-scitokens using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xrootd-scitokens
Install xrootd-scitokens 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 xrootd-scitokens using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xrootd-scitokens
How To Uninstall xrootd-scitokens on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the xrootd-scitokens package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xrootd-scitokens
xrootd-scitokens Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/86cc48863e2048bd79b7147e4a287516829c07
/usr/lib64/libXrdAccSciTokens-5.so
/usr/share/doc/xrootd-scitokens
/usr/share/doc/xrootd-scitokens/README.md
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xrootd-scitokens on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.