[Linux] Install EPEL repo in CentOS

List default repository CentOS on my server

CentOS-Base.repo

or you can check with this command

[root@vix3r ~]# ls -al /etc/yum.repos.d/
total 28

drwxr-xr-x	2	root	root	4096	Dec	14	18:30	.
drwxr-xr-x	61	root	root	4096	Dec	14	08:24	..
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	1926	Dec	14	19:07	CentOS-Base.repo
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	638	Dec	14	19:07	CentOS-Debuginfo.repo
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	630	Dec	14	19:07	CentOS-Media.repo
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	4528	Dec	14	19:07	CentOS-Vault.repo

[root@vix3r ~]# yum repolist enabled

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror

Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

* base: centos.mirror.freedomvoice.com

* extras: mirror.nwresd.org

* updates: mirror.stanford.edu

repo id	repo name	status	name
base	CentOS-6 - Base	6,367	Base
extras	CentOS-6 - Extras	14	Extras
updates	CentOS-6 - Updates	297	Updates
repolist:	6,678

INSTAL EPEL REPOSITORY

Download epel-release

Version 7 (64bit)

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm

Version 6.x (64bit)

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Version 6.x (32bit)

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Version 5.x (64bit)

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

Version 5.x (32bit)

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

Version 4.x (64bit)

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/4/x86_64/epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm

Version 4.x (32bit)

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/4/i386/epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh epel-release-4-10.noarch.rpm

recheck repolist

[root@vix3r ~]# ls -al /etc/yum.repos.d/

total 44

drwxr-xr-x	2	root	root	4096	Dec	14	19:07	.
drwxr-xr-x	70	root	root	4096	Dec	14	19:07	..
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	2031	Dec	14	19:07	CentOS-Base.repo
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	647	Dec	14	19:07	CentOS-Debuginfo.repo
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	289	Dec	14	19:07	CentOS-fasttrack.repo
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	630	Dec	14	19:07	CentOS-Media.repo
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	5394	Dec	14	19:07	CentOS-Vault.repo
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	957	Dec	14	20:24	epel.repo
-rw-r--r--	1	root	root	1056	Dec	14	20:24	epel-testing.repo

[root@horcux ~]# yum repolist enabled

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror

Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

 * base: mirror.vodien.com

 * epel: mirror.smartmedia.net.id

 * extras: mirror.vodien.com

 * updates: mirror.vodien.com

repo id	repo name	status
base	CentOS-6 - Base	6,503+15
epel	Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - x86_64	11,283
extras	CentOS-6 - Extras	36
updates	CentOS-6 - Updates	494
repolist:	18,577

Epel repo instaled :D

[Linux] Add user as Root

For example I will add user bejo6 as root
You need login as root first, then run this following command:

[root@linux]# /usr/sbin/useradd -u 0 -o -g root -G 1,2,3,6,10 -m bejo6 [root@linux]# passwd bejo6 [root@linux]# type your password [root@linux]# retype your password [root@linux]# service sshd restart

Finnaly login with new user, then check status with this command:
"whoami;id"

login as: bejo6 bejo6@bejo6.com's password: Last login: Sat Dec 13 14:40:16 2014 from 127.0.0.1 [root@linux ~]# whoami;id root uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),6(disk),10(wheel) [root@linux ~]#