Information about the package, easy-rsa, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The easy-rsa package is designed for, Simple shell based CA utility.
Package Name:
easy-rsa
Summary:
Simple shell based CA utility
Description:
This is a small RSA key management package, based on the openssl command line tool, that can be found in the easy-rsa subdirectory of the OpenVPN distribution. While this tool is primary concerned with key management for the SSL VPN application space, it can also be used for building web certificates.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
3.0.3
Release:
1.el6
Size:
31 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the easy-rsa package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install easy-rsa
This command will install easy-rsa on the server.
yum remove easy-rsa
This command will un-install easy-rsa on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove easy-rsa, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove easy-rsa
This command will un-install easy-rsa on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove easy-rsa when using the -y flag.
yum update easy-rsa
This command will update easy-rsa to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove easy-rsa, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update easy-rsa
This command will update easy-rsa to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove easy-rsa when using the -y flag.
yum info easy-rsa
This command will show you core information about the easy-rsa package.
yum deplist easy-rsa
This command will show you the dependencies for easy-rsa. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update easy-rsa
This command will check if there is an update waiting on easy-rsa. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.