How To Install samba-winbind-modules.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-winbind-modules.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is samba-winbind-modules.i686

The samba-winbind-modules package provides the NSS library and a PAM module necessary to communicate to the Winbind Daemon

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

Install samba-winbind-modules.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 samba-winbind-modules.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install samba-winbind-modules.i686

How To Uninstall samba-winbind-modules.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the samba-winbind-modules.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove samba-winbind-modules.i686

samba-winbind-modules.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/security/pam_winbind.conf
/usr/lib/libnss_winbind.so
/usr/lib/libnss_winbind.so.2
/usr/lib/libnss_wins.so
/usr/lib/libnss_wins.so.2
/usr/lib/security/pam_winbind.so
/usr/share/man/man5/pam_winbind.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/pam_winbind.8.gz

References

• samba-winbind-modules.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-winbind-modules.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.