How To Install pwauth on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pwauth on Fedora 34.
What is pwauth
Pwauth is an authenticator designed to be used with mod_auth_external or mod_authnz_external and the Apache HTTP daemon to support reasonably secure web authentication out of the system password database on most versions of Unix.
We can use yum or dnf to install pwauth on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pwauth.
Install pwauth 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 pwauth using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pwauth
Install pwauth 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 pwauth using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pwauth
How To Uninstall pwauth on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the pwauth package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pwauth
pwauth Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/pam.d/pwauth
/usr/bin/pwauth
/usr/bin/unixgroup
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/6a1b6fffbb8b38a6445e59c532e32d8acaa900
/usr/share/doc/pwauth
/usr/share/doc/pwauth/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/pwauth/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/pwauth/README
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pwauth on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.