How To Install pwgen on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pwgen
on CentOS 7.
What is pwgen
pwgen generates random, meaningless but pronounceable passwords. These passwords contain either only lowercase letters, or upper and lower case, or upper case, lower case and numeric digits. Upper case letters and numeric digits are placed in a way that eases memorizing the password.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install pwgen
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pwgen.
Install pwgen on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install pwgen
using yum
by running the following command:
Install pwgen 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 pwgen
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall pwgen on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the pwgen
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pwgen
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.