How To Install keychain on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install keychain
on CentOS 7.
What is keychain
Keychain is a manager for OpenSSH, ssh.com, Sun SSH and GnuPG agents. It acts as a front-end to the agents, allowing you to easily have one long-running agent process per system, rather than per login session. This dramatically reduces the number of times you need to enter your passphrase from once per new login session to once every time your local machine is rebooted.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install keychain
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install keychain.
Install keychain on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install keychain
using yum
by running the following command:
Install keychain 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 keychain
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall keychain on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the keychain
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install keychain
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.