How To Install munge on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install munge
on CentOS 7.
What is munge
MUNGE (MUNGE Uid ‘N’ Gid Emporium) is an authentication service for creating and validating credentials. It is designed to be highly scalable for use in an HPC cluster environment. It allows a process to authenticate the UID and GID of another local or remote process within a group of hosts having common users and groups. These hosts form a security realm that is defined by a shared cryptographic key. Clients within this security realm can create and validate credentials without the use of root privileges, reserved ports, or platform-specific methods.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install munge
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install munge.
Install munge on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install munge
using yum
by running the following command:
Install munge 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 munge
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall munge on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the munge
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install munge
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.