How To Install ipa-server on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipa-server
on CentOS 7.
What is ipa-server
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 you are installing an IPA server, you need to install this package.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ipa-server
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ipa-server.
Install ipa-server on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install ipa-server
using yum
by running the following command:
Install ipa-server 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-server
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall ipa-server on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ipa-server
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ipa-server
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.