How To Install google-authenticator on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install google-authenticator
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is google-authenticator
The Google Authenticator package contains a plug-able authentication module (PAM) which allows login using one-time pass-codes conforming to the open standards developed by the Initiative for Open Authentication (OATH) (which is unrelated to OAuth). Pass-code generators are available (separately) for several mobile platforms. These implementations support the HMAC-Based One-time Password (HOTP) algorithm specified in RFC 4226 and the Time-based One-time Password (TOTP) algorithm currently in draft.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install google-authenticator
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install google-authenticator.
Install google-authenticator 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 google-authenticator
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install google-authenticator
Install google-authenticator 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 google-authenticator
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install google-authenticator
How To Uninstall google-authenticator on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the google-authenticator
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove google-authenticator
google-authenticator Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/google-authenticator
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/19f17158d9ddef0a7f6135defe09c66b2b8061
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/03ef7a7d6793e0fcd5b4db22f580420272c34a
/usr/lib64/security/pam_google_authenticator.la
/usr/lib64/security/pam_google_authenticator.so
/usr/share/doc/google-authenticator
/usr/share/doc/google-authenticator/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/google-authenticator/FILEFORMAT
/usr/share/doc/google-authenticator/README.md
/usr/share/doc/google-authenticator/totp.html
/usr/share/licenses/google-authenticator
/usr/share/licenses/google-authenticator/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/google-authenticator.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/pam_google_authenticator.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install google-authenticator
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.