How To Install oidentd on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install oidentd
on CentOS 7.
What is oidentd
The oidentd package contains identd, which implements the RFC1413 identification server. Identd looks up specific TCP/IP connections and returns either the user name or other information about the process that owns the connection. Install oidentd if you need to look up information about specific TCP/IP connections.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install oidentd
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install oidentd.
Install oidentd on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install oidentd
using yum
by running the following command:
Install oidentd 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 oidentd
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall oidentd on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the oidentd
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install oidentd
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.