How To Install ipa-client on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipa-client
on CentOS 7.
What is ipa-client
IPA is an integrated solution to provide centrally managed Identity (users, hosts, services), Authentication (SSO, 2FA), and Authorization (host access control, SELinux user roles, services). The solution provides features for further integration with Linux based clients (SUDO, automount) and integration with Active Directory based infrastructures (Trusts). If your network uses IPA for authentication, this package should be installed on every client machine. This package provides command-line tools for IPA administrators.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ipa-client
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ipa-client.
Install ipa-client on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install ipa-client
using yum
by running the following command:
Install ipa-client 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 ipa-client
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall ipa-client on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ipa-client
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipa-client
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.