How To Install libxcrypt on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxcrypt on Fedora 36.
What is libxcrypt
libxcrypt is a modern library for one-way hashing of passwords. It supports a wide variety of both modern and historical hashing methods yescrypt, gost-yescrypt, scrypt, bcrypt, sha512crypt, sha256crypt, md5crypt, SunMD5, sha1crypt, NT, bsdicrypt, bigcrypt, and descrypt. It provides the traditional Unix crypt and crypt_r interfaces, as well as a set of extended interfaces pioneered by Openwall Linux, crypt_rn, crypt_ra, crypt_gensalt, crypt_gensalt_rn, and crypt_gensalt_ra. libxcrypt is intended to be used by login(1), passwd(1), and other similar programs; that is, to hash a small number of passwords during an interactive authentication dialogue with a human. It is not suitable for use in bulk password-cracking applications, or in any other situation where speed is more important than careful handling of sensitive data. However, it is intended to be fast and lightweight enough for use in servers that must field thousands of login attempts per minute. This version of the library does not provide the legacy API functions that have been provided by glibc’s libcrypt.so.1.
We can use yum or dnf to install libxcrypt on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libxcrypt.
Install libxcrypt 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 libxcrypt using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libxcrypt
Install libxcrypt 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 libxcrypt using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libxcrypt
How To Uninstall libxcrypt on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the libxcrypt package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libxcrypt
libxcrypt Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/24d3a82ca8fa6b94bc574a6520bcf84ccf831f
/usr/lib64/fipscheck
/usr/lib64/fipscheck/libcrypt.so.2.0.0.hmac
/usr/lib64/fipscheck/libcrypt.so.2.hmac
/usr/lib64/libcrypt.so.2
/usr/lib64/libcrypt.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libxcrypt
/usr/share/doc/libxcrypt/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libxcrypt/README
/usr/share/doc/libxcrypt/README.fedora
/usr/share/doc/libxcrypt/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/libxcrypt
/usr/share/licenses/libxcrypt/AUTHORS
/usr/share/licenses/libxcrypt/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/licenses/libxcrypt/LICENSING
/usr/share/man/man5/crypt.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxcrypt on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
