How To Install cros-sudo-config on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install cros-sudo-config on Rocky Linux 8. cros-sudo-config is sudo config for Chromium OS integration.

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cros-sudo-config on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `cros-sudo-config`

sudo config for Chromium OS integration. This package installs default configuration for sudo to allow passwordless sudo access for the sudo group, and passwordless pkexec for the sudo group.

We can use yum or dnf to install cros-sudo-config on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cros-sudo-config.

Install cros-sudo-config 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 cros-sudo-config using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cros-sudo-config

Install cros-sudo-config 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 cros-sudo-config using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cros-sudo-config

How To Uninstall cros-sudo-config on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the cros-sudo-config package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cros-sudo-config

cros-sudo-config Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/sudoers.d/10-cros-nopasswd
/usr/share/doc/cros-sudo-config
/usr/share/doc/cros-sudo-config/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/cros-sudo-config
/usr/share/licenses/cros-sudo-config/LICENSE
/var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/10-cros-nopasswd.pkla

References

cros-sudo-config website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cros-sudo-config on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.