How To Install pam_oath on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pam_oath on Fedora 34.
What is pam_oath
A PAM module for pluggable login authentication for OATH.
We can use yum or dnf to install pam_oath on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pam_oath.
Install pam_oath 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_oath using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pam_oath
Install pam_oath 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_oath using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pam_oath
How To Uninstall pam_oath on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the pam_oath package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pam_oath
pam_oath Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/6d8f92abfd8fd967f9798be98bd8ebd390714c
/usr/lib64/security/pam_oath.so
/usr/share/doc/pam_oath
/usr/share/doc/pam_oath/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/pam_oath/README
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pam_oath on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.