How To Install cyrus-sasl-gssapi on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cyrus-sasl-gssapi on CentOS 7.
What is cyrus-sasl-gssapi
The cyrus-sasl-gssapi package contains the Cyrus SASL plugins which support GSSAPI authentication. GSSAPI is commonly used for Kerberos authentication. The cyrus-sasl-gssapi package contains the Cyrus SASL plugins which support GSSAPI authentication. GSSAPI is commonly used for Kerberos authentication.
We can use yum or dnf to install cyrus-sasl-gssapi on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cyrus-sasl-gssapi.
Install cyrus-sasl-gssapi on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install cyrus-sasl-gssapi using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cyrus-sasl-gssapi
Install cyrus-sasl-gssapi 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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install cyrus-sasl-gssapi using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cyrus-sasl-gssapi
How To Uninstall cyrus-sasl-gssapi on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the cyrus-sasl-gssapi package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cyrus-sasl-gssapi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cyrus-sasl-gssapi on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
