How To Install remctl on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install remctl
on CentOS 7.
What is remctl
remctl (the client) and remctld (the server) implement a client/server protocol for running single commands on a remote host using Kerberos v5 authentication and returning the output. They use a very simple GSS-API-authenticated network protocol, combined with server-side ACL support and a server configuration file that maps remctl commands to programs that should be run when that command is called by an authorised user.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install remctl
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install remctl.
Install remctl on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install remctl
using yum
by running the following command:
Install remctl 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 remctl
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall remctl on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the remctl
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install remctl
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.