How To Install pam-libs on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install pam-libs in Fedora 36. pam-libs is Shared libraries of the PAM package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pam-libs on Fedora 36.

What is `pam-libs`

PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool that allows system administrators to set authentication policy without having to recompile programs that handle authentication. The pam-libs contains the shared libraries for PAM.

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

Install pam-libs 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 pam-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pam-libs

Install pam-libs 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 pam-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pam-libs

How To Uninstall pam-libs on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the pam-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove pam-libs

pam-libs Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/59e83e7c34f5520cfc68e9ed8fcbbd34e8228c
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/aac358d78e4789066df920ac5d903cc7926397
/usr/lib/.build-id/88
/usr/lib/.build-id/88/f7f740ba483ffafe769da7d68877513c345434
/usr/lib64/libpam.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpam.so.0.85.1
/usr/lib64/libpam_misc.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpam_misc.so.0.82.1
/usr/lib64/libpamc.so.0
/usr/lib64/libpamc.so.0.82.1
/usr/share/licenses/pam-libs
/usr/share/licenses/pam-libs/Copyright
/usr/share/licenses/pam-libs/gpl-2.0.txt

References

pam-libs website

Summary

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