How To Install kstart on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install kstart in Fedora 36. kstart is Daemon version of kinit for Kerberos v5

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kstart on Fedora 36.

What is `kstart`

k5start is a modified version of kinit which can use keytabs to authenticate, can run as a daemon and wake up periodically to refresh a ticket, and can run single commands with its own authentication credentials and refresh those credentials until the command exits.

We can use yum or dnf to install kstart on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kstart.

Install kstart on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install kstart using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kstart

Install kstart on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install kstart using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kstart

How To Uninstall kstart on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove kstart

kstart Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/k5start
/usr/bin/krenew
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/818a43eaa11c5701a0cbed9aca73864cd323e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4/90b1465fa97a461bb67870b5191eed61264217
/usr/share/doc/kstart
/usr/share/doc/kstart/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/kstart/README
/usr/share/licenses/kstart
/usr/share/licenses/kstart/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/k5start.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/krenew.1.gz

References

kstart website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kstart on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).