How To Install kstart on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kstart on CentOS 8.
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 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kstart.
Install kstart on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install kstart using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kstart
Install kstart on CentOS 8 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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install kstart using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kstart
How To Uninstall kstart on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the kstart package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kstart
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kstart on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.