How To Install perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 on CentOS 7.
What is perl-Crypt-PBKDF2
PBKDF2 is a secure password hashing algorithm that uses the techniques of “key strengthening” to make the complexity of a brute-force attack arbitrarily high. PBKDF2 uses any other cryptographic hash or cipher (by convention, usually HMAC-SHA1, but Crypt number of iterations of the hashing function, and a nearly unlimited output hash size (up to 2**32 - 1 times the size of the output of the back-end hash). The hash is salted, as any password hash should be, and the salt may also be of arbitrary size.
We can use yum or dnf to install perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install perl-Crypt-PBKDF2.
Install perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install perl-Crypt-PBKDF2
Install perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install perl-Crypt-PBKDF2
How To Uninstall perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove perl-Crypt-PBKDF2
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install perl-Crypt-PBKDF2 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.