How To Install authd on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install authd
on CentOS 7.
What is authd
authd is a small and fast RFC 1413 ident protocol daemon with both xinetd server and interactive modes that supports IPv6 and IPv4 as well as the more popular features of pidentd.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install authd
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install authd.
Install authd on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install authd
using yum
by running the following command:
Install authd 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 authd
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall authd on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the authd
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install authd
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.