How To Install voms on Fedora 34

voms is Virtual Organization Membership Service Virtual Organization Membership Service

Introduction

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

What is `voms`

The Virtual Organization Membership Service (VOMS) is an attribute authority which serves as central repository for VO user authorization information, providing support for sorting users into group hierarchies, keeping track of their roles and other attributes in order to issue trusted attribute certificates and SAML assertions used in the Grid environment for authorization purposes. This package provides libraries that applications using the VOMS functionality will bind to. voms 2.1.0 0.19.rc1.fc34 x86_64 155 k voms-2.1.0-0.19.rc1.fc34.src.rpm updates Virtual Organization Membership Service https ASL 2.0 The Virtual Organization Membership Service (VOMS) is an attribute authority which serves as central repository for VO user authorization information, providing support for sorting users into group hierarchies, keeping track of their roles and other attributes in order to issue trusted attribute certificates and SAML assertions used in the Grid environment for authorization purposes. This package provides libraries that applications using the VOMS functionality will bind to.

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

Install voms 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 voms using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install voms

Install voms 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 voms using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install voms

How To Uninstall voms on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove voms

voms Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/grid-security
/etc/grid-security/vomsdir
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/dfed2098901b6441477ae5e166ae63e03720b1
/usr/lib/libvomsapi.so.1
/usr/lib/libvomsapi.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/voms
/usr/share/doc/voms/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/voms/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/voms
/usr/share/licenses/voms/LICENSE
/usr/share/voms
/usr/share/voms/vomses.template
/etc/grid-security
/etc/grid-security/vomsdir
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/45649580e8a411c79f02d139469b7ab11397b9
/usr/lib64/libvomsapi.so.1
/usr/lib64/libvomsapi.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/voms
/usr/share/doc/voms/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/voms/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/voms
/usr/share/licenses/voms/LICENSE
/usr/share/voms
/usr/share/voms/vomses.template
/etc/grid-security
/etc/grid-security/vomsdir
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/577a8a50b956aeb3d67376c19536f99292a90b
/usr/lib64/libvomsapi.so.1
/usr/lib64/libvomsapi.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/voms
/usr/share/doc/voms/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/voms/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/voms
/usr/share/licenses/voms/LICENSE
/usr/share/voms
/usr/share/voms/vomses.template
/etc/grid-security
/etc/grid-security/vomsdir
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/429c5ef76dbad55f22373f2bfdf0e18df2d188
/usr/lib/libvomsapi.so.1
/usr/lib/libvomsapi.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/voms
/usr/share/doc/voms/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/voms/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/voms
/usr/share/licenses/voms/LICENSE
/usr/share/voms
/usr/share/voms/vomses.template

References

[voms website](https://italiangrid.github.io/voms/ https://italiangrid.github.io/voms/)

Summary

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