How To Install cyrus-sasl on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cyrus-sasl
on CentOS 7.
What is cyrus-sasl
The cyrus-sasl package contains the Cyrus implementation of SASL. SASL is the Simple Authentication and Security Layer, a method for adding authentication support to connection-based protocols. The cyrus-sasl package contains the Cyrus implementation of SASL. SASL is the Simple Authentication and Security Layer, a method for adding authentication support to connection-based protocols.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install cyrus-sasl
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cyrus-sasl.
Install cyrus-sasl on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install cyrus-sasl
using yum
by running the following command:
Install cyrus-sasl 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 cyrus-sasl
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall cyrus-sasl on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the cyrus-sasl
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cyrus-sasl
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.