How To Install pamtester on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pamtester
on CentOS 7.
What is pamtester
Pamtester is a tiny program to test the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) facility, which is a de facto standard of unified authentication management mechanism in many Unixes and similar OSes including Solaris, HP-UX, *BSD, MacOSX and Linux. While specifically designed to help PAM module authors to test their modules, that might also be handy for system administrators interested in building a centralised authentication system using common standards such as NIS, SASL and LDAP.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install pamtester
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pamtester.
Install pamtester on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install pamtester
using yum
by running the following command:
Install pamtester 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 pamtester
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall pamtester on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the pamtester
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pamtester
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.