Information about the package, authd, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The authd package is designed for, A RFC 1413 ident protocol daemon.
Package Name:
authd
Summary:
A RFC 1413 ident protocol daemon
Description:
authd is a small and fast RFC 1413 ident protocol daemon with both xinetd server and interactive modes that supports IPv6 and IPv4 as well as the more popular features of pidentd.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.4.3
Release:
31.el6_4
Size:
43 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the authd package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install authd
This command will install authd on the server.
yum remove authd
This command will un-install authd on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove authd, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove authd
This command will un-install authd 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 authd when using the -y flag.
yum update authd
This command will update authd to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove authd, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update authd
This command will update authd 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 authd when using the -y flag.
yum info authd
This command will show you core information about the authd package.
yum deplist authd
This command will show you the dependencies for authd. 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 authd
This command will check if there is an update waiting on authd. 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.