How To Install ipa-client-common on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipa-client-common on Rocky Linux 8. ipa-client-common is Common files used by IPA client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipa-client-common on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `ipa-client-common`

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.

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

Install ipa-client-common 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 ipa-client-common using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ipa-client-common

Install ipa-client-common 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 ipa-client-common using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ipa-client-common

How To Uninstall ipa-client-common on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the ipa-client-common package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ipa-client-common

ipa-client-common Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/ipa
/etc/ipa/ca.crt
/etc/ipa/default.conf
/etc/ipa/nssdb
/etc/ipa/nssdb/cert8.db
/etc/ipa/nssdb/cert9.db
/etc/ipa/nssdb/key3.db
/etc/ipa/nssdb/key4.db
/etc/ipa/nssdb/pkcs11.txt
/etc/ipa/nssdb/pwdfile.txt
/etc/ipa/nssdb/secmod.db
/etc/pki/ca-trust/source/ipa.p11-kit
/usr/share/doc/ipa-client-common
/usr/share/doc/ipa-client-common/Contributors.txt
/usr/share/doc/ipa-client-common/README.md
/usr/share/ipa/client
/usr/share/ipa/client/freeipa.template
/usr/share/ipa/client/ssh_ipa.conf.template
/usr/share/ipa/client/sshd_ipa.conf.template
/usr/share/licenses/ipa-client-common
/usr/share/licenses/ipa-client-common/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/default.conf.5.gz
/var/lib/ipa-client
/var/lib/ipa-client/pki
/var/lib/ipa-client/sysrestore

References

ipa-client-common website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ipa-client-common on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.