How To Install authconfig on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install authconfig
on CentOS 7.
What is authconfig
Authconfig is a command line utility which can configure a workstation to use shadow (more secure) passwords. Authconfig can also configure a system to be a client for certain networked user information and authentication schemes.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install authconfig
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install authconfig.
Install authconfig on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install authconfig
using yum
by running the following command:
Install authconfig on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install authconfig
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall authconfig on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the authconfig
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install authconfig
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.