Information about the package, perl-Authen-Credential, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-Authen-Credential package is designed for, Abstraction of a credential.
Package Name:
perl-Authen-Credential
Summary:
Abstraction of a credential
Description:
This module offers an abstraction of a credential, i.e. something that can be used to authenticate. It allows the creation and manipulation of credentials. In particular, it defines a standard string representation (so that credentials can be given to external programs as command line options), a standard structured representation (so that credentials can be stored in structured configuration files or using JSON) and "preparators" that can transform credentials into ready-to-use data for well known targets.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.1
Release:
1.el6
Size:
22 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL+ or Artistic
Control the perl-Authen-Credential package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-Authen-Credential
This command will install perl-Authen-Credential on the server.
yum remove perl-Authen-Credential
This command will un-install perl-Authen-Credential on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Authen-Credential, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-Authen-Credential
This command will un-install perl-Authen-Credential 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 perl-Authen-Credential when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-Authen-Credential
This command will update perl-Authen-Credential to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Authen-Credential, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-Authen-Credential
This command will update perl-Authen-Credential 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 perl-Authen-Credential when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-Authen-Credential
This command will show you core information about the perl-Authen-Credential package.
yum deplist perl-Authen-Credential
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-Authen-Credential. 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 perl-Authen-Credential
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-Authen-Credential. 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.