How To Install libpwquality.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpwquality.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libpwquality.x86_64 is A library for password generation and password quality checking

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libpwquality.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libpwquality.x86_64`

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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libpwquality.x86_64.

Install libpwquality.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 libpwquality.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libpwquality.x86_64

How To Uninstall libpwquality.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libpwquality.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libpwquality.x86_64

libpwquality.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/security/pwquality.conf
/usr/bin/pwmake
/usr/bin/pwscore
/usr/lib64/libpwquality.so.1
/usr/lib64/libpwquality.so.1.0.2
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

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