How To Install authconfig-gtk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install authconfig-gtk.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. authconfig-gtk.x86_64 is Graphical tool for setting up authentication from network services

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install authconfig-gtk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is authconfig-gtk.x86_64

Authconfig-gtk is a GUI program which can configure a workstation to use shadow (more secure) passwords. Authconfig-gtk can also configure a system to be a client for certain networked user information and authentication schemes.

We can use yum to install authconfig-gtk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install authconfig-gtk.x86_64.

Install authconfig-gtk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install authconfig-gtk.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install authconfig-gtk.x86_64

How To Uninstall authconfig-gtk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the authconfig-gtk.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove authconfig-gtk.x86_64

authconfig-gtk.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/pam.d/authconfig
/etc/pam.d/authconfig-gtk
/etc/pam.d/authconfig-tui
/etc/pam.d/system-config-authentication
/etc/security/console.apps/authconfig
/etc/security/console.apps/authconfig-gtk
/etc/security/console.apps/authconfig-tui
/etc/security/console.apps/system-config-authentication
/usr/bin/authconfig
/usr/bin/authconfig-gtk
/usr/bin/authconfig-tui
/usr/bin/system-config-authentication
/usr/sbin/authconfig-gtk
/usr/sbin/system-config-authentication
/usr/share/applications/authconfig.desktop
/usr/share/authconfig/authconfig-gtk.py
/usr/share/authconfig/authconfig-gtk.pyc
/usr/share/authconfig/authconfig-gtk.pyo
/usr/share/authconfig/authconfig.glade
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/system-config-authentication.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/system-config-authentication.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/system-config-authentication.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/system-config-authentication.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/system-config-authentication.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/system-config-authentication.png
/usr/share/man/man8/authconfig-gtk.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/system-config-authentication.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install authconfig-gtk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.