How To Install kstart on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kstart
on CentOS 7.
What is kstart
k5start is a modified version of kinit which can use keytabs to authenticate, can run as a daemon and wake up periodically to refresh a ticket, and can run single commands with its own authentication credentials and refresh those credentials until the command exits.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install kstart
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kstart.
Install kstart on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install kstart
using yum
by running the following command:
Install kstart 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 kstart
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall kstart on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the kstart
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kstart
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.