How To Install freeradius-krb5 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeradius-krb5 on Rocky Linux 8. freeradius-krb5 is Kerberos 5 support for freeradius

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeradius-krb5 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is freeradius-krb5

This plugin provides the Kerberos 5 support for the FreeRADIUS server project.

We can use yum or dnf to install freeradius-krb5 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freeradius-krb5.

Install freeradius-krb5 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 freeradius-krb5 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freeradius-krb5

Install freeradius-krb5 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 freeradius-krb5 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freeradius-krb5

How To Uninstall freeradius-krb5 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the freeradius-krb5 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove freeradius-krb5

freeradius-krb5 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/raddb/mods-available/krb5
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/219e54088a9fb579f85e4b198a2a1e8387b46a
/usr/lib64/freeradius/rlm_krb5.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freeradius-krb5 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.