How To Install authselect on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install authselect on Fedora 34.
What is authselect
Authselect is designed to be a replacement for authconfig but it takes a different approach to configure the system. Instead of letting the administrator build the PAM stack with a tool (which may potentially end up with a broken configuration), it would ship several tested stacks (profiles) that solve a use-case and are well tested and supported. At the same time, some obsolete features of authconfig are not supported by authselect.
We can use yum or dnf to install authselect on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install authselect.
Install authselect on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install authselect using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install authselect
Install authselect on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install authselect using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install authselect
How To Uninstall authselect on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the authselect package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove authselect
authselect Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/bash_completion.d/authselect-completion.sh
/usr/bin/authselect
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3/3707d4b09fde1086e2276b9291d350e150d843
/usr/share/man/cs/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/cs/man8/authselect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man8/authselect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man8/authselect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/ja/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/authselect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man8/authselect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man8/authselect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man8/authselect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/tr/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/tr/man8/authselect.8.gz
/usr/share/man/uk/man7/authselect-migration.7.gz
/usr/share/man/uk/man8/authselect.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install authselect on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.