How To Install pam_cifscreds on Fedora 34

pam_cifscreds is PAM module to manage NTLM credentials in kernel keyring

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pam_cifscreds on Fedora 34.

What is `pam_cifscreds`

The pam_cifscreds PAM module is a tool for automatically adding credentials (username and password) for the purpose of establishing sessions in multiuser mounts. When a cifs filesystem is mounted with the “multiuser” option, and does not use krb5 authentication, it needs to be able to get the credentials for each user from somewhere. The pam_cifscreds module can be used to provide these credentials to the kernel automatically at login.

We can use yum or dnf to install pam_cifscreds on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pam_cifscreds.

Install pam_cifscreds 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 pam_cifscreds using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pam_cifscreds

Install pam_cifscreds 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 pam_cifscreds using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pam_cifscreds

How To Uninstall pam_cifscreds on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove pam_cifscreds

pam_cifscreds Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/b5098d272f556da214102f2f553037320ccfd0
/usr/lib64/security/pam_cifscreds.so
/usr/share/man/man8/pam_cifscreds.8.gz

References

pam_cifscreds website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pam_cifscreds on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.