How To Install paternoster on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install paternoster
on CentOS 7.
What is paternoster
Paternoster enables ansible playbooks to be run like normal bash or python scripts. It parses the given parameters using python’s argparse and then passes them on to the actual playbook via the ansible API. In addition it provides an automated way to run commands as another user, which can be used to give normal shell users special privileges, while still having a sleek and easy to understand user interface.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install paternoster
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install paternoster.
Install paternoster on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install paternoster
using yum
by running the following command:
Install paternoster 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 paternoster
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall paternoster on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the paternoster
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install paternoster
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.