How To Install libpwquality.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpwquality.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libpwquality.i686 is A library for password generation and password quality checking

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpwquality.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libpwquality.i686`

This is a library for password quality checks and generation of random passwords that pass the checks. This library uses the cracklib and cracklib dictionaries to perform some of the checks.

We can use yum to install libpwquality.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libpwquality.i686.

Install libpwquality.i686 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 libpwquality.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libpwquality.i686

How To Uninstall libpwquality.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libpwquality.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libpwquality.i686

libpwquality.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/security/pwquality.conf
/usr/bin/pwmake
/usr/bin/pwscore
/usr/lib/libpwquality.so.1
/usr/lib/libpwquality.so.1.0.2
/usr/lib/security/pam_pwquality.so
/usr/share/doc/libpwquality-1.2.3
/usr/share/doc/libpwquality-1.2.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libpwquality-1.2.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libpwquality-1.2.3/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libpwquality-1.2.3/README
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr_IN/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/locale/zu/LC_MESSAGES/libpwquality.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/pwmake.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pwscore.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/pwquality.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/pam_pwquality.8.gz

References

libpwquality.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpwquality.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.