How To Install ipa-client on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipa-client on Rocky Linux 8.
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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ipa-client.
Install ipa-client 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 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ipa-client
Install ipa-client 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 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ipa-client
How To Uninstall ipa-client on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the ipa-client package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ipa-client
ipa-client Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/bash_completion.d
/etc/bash_completion.d/ipa
/etc/sysconfig/certmonger
/usr/bin/ipa
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/2b482c0be52bd849db4f9e18f4932b8c2562ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/286c2271bb904277df2dd91ba030783e3fe1f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f/c7d3479465a885fd9888a7fdb531eb35aabd92
/usr/libexec/ipa/acme
/usr/libexec/ipa/acme/certbot-dns-ipa
/usr/sbin/ipa-certupdate
/usr/sbin/ipa-client-automount
/usr/sbin/ipa-client-install
/usr/sbin/ipa-getkeytab
/usr/sbin/ipa-join
/usr/sbin/ipa-rmkeytab
/usr/share/doc/ipa-client
/usr/share/doc/ipa-client/Contributors.txt
/usr/share/doc/ipa-client/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ipa-client
/usr/share/licenses/ipa-client/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa-certupdate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa-client-automount.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa-client-install.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa-getkeytab.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa-join.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa-rmkeytab.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa.1.gz
/etc/bash_completion.d
/etc/bash_completion.d/ipa
/etc/sysconfig/certmonger
/usr/bin/ipa
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a/cd4108891ee99b00de3a8cb37eb22a1e76577d
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/def089bd8b9a4c681bc6acca61af33b3b782bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/7556aeb5758a823d3d5b9d0d4dbf38d8de8c60
/usr/libexec/ipa/acme
/usr/libexec/ipa/acme/certbot-dns-ipa
/usr/sbin/ipa-certupdate
/usr/sbin/ipa-client-automount
/usr/sbin/ipa-client-install
/usr/sbin/ipa-getkeytab
/usr/sbin/ipa-join
/usr/sbin/ipa-rmkeytab
/usr/share/doc/ipa-client
/usr/share/doc/ipa-client/Contributors.txt
/usr/share/doc/ipa-client/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ipa-client
/usr/share/licenses/ipa-client/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa-certupdate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa-client-automount.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa-client-install.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa-getkeytab.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa-join.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa-rmkeytab.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ipa.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipa-client on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.