How To Install gssproxy on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gssproxy on Rocky Linux 8.

What is gssproxy

A proxy for GSSAPI credential handling

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

Install gssproxy 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 gssproxy using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gssproxy

Install gssproxy 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 gssproxy using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gssproxy

How To Uninstall gssproxy on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the gssproxy package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gssproxy

gssproxy Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/gss/mech.d/gssproxy.conf
/etc/gssproxy
/etc/gssproxy/99-nfs-client.conf
/etc/gssproxy/gssproxy.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/f539ef402201ba338340d511b518406fa6f020
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc/d767f675fce7ea550fc58336c39e1f86d4acb8
/usr/lib/systemd/system/gssproxy.service
/usr/lib64/gssproxy
/usr/lib64/gssproxy/proxymech.so
/usr/sbin/gssproxy
/usr/share/licenses/gssproxy
/usr/share/licenses/gssproxy/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/gssproxy.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/gssproxy-mech.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/gssproxy.8.gz
/var/lib/gssproxy
/var/lib/gssproxy/clients
/var/lib/gssproxy/rcache

References

• gssproxy website

Summary

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