How To Install authselect-compat on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install authselect-compat on Rocky Linux 8.
What is authselect-compat
This package will replace /usr/sbin/authconfig with a tool that will translate some of the authconfig calls into authselect calls. It provides only minimum backward compatibility and users are encouraged to migrate to authselect completely.
We can use yum or dnf to install authselect-compat on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install authselect-compat.
Install authselect-compat on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install authselect-compat using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install authselect-compat
Install authselect-compat on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install authselect-compat using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install authselect-compat
How To Uninstall authselect-compat on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the authselect-compat package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove authselect-compat
authselect-compat Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/__pycache__/authcompat.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/__pycache__/authcompat.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/__pycache__/authcompat_ConfigSnippet.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/__pycache__/authcompat_ConfigSnippet.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/__pycache__/authcompat_EnvironmentFile.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/__pycache__/authcompat_EnvironmentFile.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/__pycache__/authcompat_Options.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/__pycache__/authcompat_Options.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/authcompat.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/authcompat_ConfigSnippet.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/authcompat_EnvironmentFile.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/authcompat_Options.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/snippets
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/snippets/authconfig-krb.conf
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/authselect/snippets/authconfig-sssd.conf
/usr/sbin/authconfig
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install authselect-compat on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.