How To Install pwauth on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pwauth
on CentOS 7.
What is pwauth
Pwauth is an authenticator designed to be used with mod_auth_external or mod_authnz_external and the Apache HTTP daemon to support reasonably secure web authentication out of the system password database on most versions of Unix.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install pwauth
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pwauth.
Install pwauth on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install pwauth
using yum
by running the following command:
Install pwauth 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 pwauth
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall pwauth on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the pwauth
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pwauth
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.