How To Install signon on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install signon on CentOS 8.
What is signon
Single Sign-On is a framework for centrally storing authentication credentials and handling authentication on behalf of applications as requested by applications. It consists of a secure storage of login credentials (for example usernames and passwords), plugins for different authentication systems and a client library for applications to communicate with this system.
We can use yum or dnf to install signon on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install signon.
Install signon on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install signon using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install signon
Install signon on CentOS 8 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 signon using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install signon
How To Uninstall signon on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the signon package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove signon
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install signon on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.