How To Install libuser.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libuser.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libuser.i686 is A user and group account administration library

Introduction

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

What is `libuser.i686`

The libuser library implements a standardized interface for manipulating and administering user and group accounts. The library uses pluggable back-ends to interface to its data sources. Sample applications modeled after those included with the shadow password suite are included.

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

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

sudo yum -y install libuser.i686

How To Uninstall libuser.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove libuser.i686

libuser.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/libuser.conf
/usr/bin/lchfn
/usr/bin/lchsh
/usr/lib/libuser
/usr/lib/libuser.so.1
/usr/lib/libuser.so.1.5.0
/usr/lib/libuser/libuser_files.so
/usr/lib/libuser/libuser_ldap.so
/usr/lib/libuser/libuser_shadow.so
/usr/sbin/lchage
/usr/sbin/lgroupadd
/usr/sbin/lgroupdel
/usr/sbin/lgroupmod
/usr/sbin/lid
/usr/sbin/lnewusers
/usr/sbin/lpasswd
/usr/sbin/luseradd
/usr/sbin/luserdel
/usr/sbin/lusermod
/usr/share/doc/libuser-0.60
/usr/share/doc/libuser-0.60/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libuser-0.60/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libuser-0.60/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libuser-0.60/README
/usr/share/doc/libuser-0.60/TODO
/usr/share/doc/libuser-0.60/attributes.txt
/usr/share/doc/libuser-0.60/rfc2307.txt
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/libuser.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/lchage.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lchfn.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lchsh.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lgroupadd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lgroupdel.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lgroupmod.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lid.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lnewusers.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lpasswd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/luseradd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/luserdel.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lusermod.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/libuser.conf.5.gz

References

libuser.i686 website

Summary

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