How To Install libpam-mount on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpam-mount
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libpam-mount
libpam-mount is:
This module is aimed at environments with central file servers that a user wishes to mount on login and unmount on logout, such as (semi-)diskless stations where many users can login.
The module also supports mounting local filesystems of any kind the normal mount utility supports, with extra code to make sure certain volumes are set up properly because often they need more than just a mount call, such as encrypted volumes. This includes SMB/CIFS, FUSE, dm-crypt and LUKS.
Package: libpam-mount Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.16-10 Multi-Arch: same Priority: extra Section: admin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Jochen Sprickerhof [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 206 Depends: libpam-runtime, libc6 (>= 2.14), libcryptsetup12 (>= 2:1.4), libhx28 (>= 3.22), libmount1 (>= 2.19.1), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libpcre2-8-0 (>= 10.32), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4) Recommends: libpam-mount-bin Suggests: cifs-utils, davfs2, fuse, lsof, openssl, psmisc, sshfs, xfsprogs, hxtools Filename: pool/main/libp/libpam-mount/libpam-mount_2.16-10_amd64.deb Size: 58592 MD5sum: c44042208666b4d101ac4261fcc3a788 SHA1: 8503bf9e97a9b0df31efe1355f3da918078db0fb SHA256: 7afaf8366966f60ec28256d5ebabe2071fb535de6ac66b6d555f21ac8722aa9e Homepage: http://pam-mount.sourceforge.net/ Description-en: PAM module that can mount volumes for a user session This module is aimed at environments with central file servers that a user wishes to mount on login and unmount on logout, such as (semi-)diskless stations where many users can login.
The module also supports mounting local filesystems of any kind the normal mount utility supports, with extra code to make sure certain volumes are set up properly because often they need more than just a mount call, such as encrypted volumes. This includes SMB/CIFS, FUSE, dm-crypt and LUKS.
There are three methods to install libpam-mount
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libpam-mount Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libpam-mount
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libpam-mount
Install libpam-mount Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libpam-mount
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libpam-mount
Install libpam-mount Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libpam-mount
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libpam-mount
How To Uninstall libpam-mount on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libpam-mount
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libpam-mount
Uninstall libpam-mount And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libpam-mount
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpam-mount
Remove libpam-mount Configurations and Data
To remove libpam-mount
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libpam-mount
Remove libpam-mount configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libpam-mount
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpam-mount
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpam-mount
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.