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You can use [pacman](https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/) to install the packages.
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#### RHEL/CentOS
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There are a few subtle yet important things to getting this setup, at the time of this writing the package cannot be installed via yum (its a feature request). So this is how we setup this on RHEL following some best practices.
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1. [Required] Install `step`.
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Download the latest Linux package from
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[`step` releases](https://github.com/smallstep/cli/releases):
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```
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$ wget -O step-cert.tar.gz https://github.com/smallstep/cli/releases/download/vX.Y.Z/step_linux_X.Y.Z_amd64.tar.gz
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```
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Install the Package by unzipping in bin:
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```
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$ tar -xf step.tar.gz
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$ cd step-_X.Y.Z/bin/
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$ mv step /usr/bin
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```
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2. Install `step-ca`.
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Download the latest Linux package from [releases](https://github.com/smallstep/certificates/releases):
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```
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$ wget -O step-ca.tar.gz https://github.com/smallstep/cli/releases/download/vX.Y.Z/step_linux_X.Y.Z_amd64.tar.gz
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```
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Install the Package by unzipping in bin:
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```
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$ tar -xf step-ca.tar.gz
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$ cd step-certificates_X.Y.Z/bin/
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$ mv step-ca /usr/bin
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```
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3. Now your users can call the step and step-ca commands, create a 'smallstep' user that doesn't have login permitted and will only be used as a service user for systemctl to manage this service.
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```
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$ useradd smallstep
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$ passwd -l smallstep
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```
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This creates a home directory for smallstep, as root sudo to the smallstep user, and perform the getting-started steps to setup the CA on this box as that user, we chose to put the password in a file in this example but you can mess with other solutions, we then made this systemctl service file
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```
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[Unit]
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Description=Smallstep
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After=syslog.target network.target
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[Service]
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User=smallstep
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Group=smallstep
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ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '/bin/step-ca /home/smallstep/.step/config/ca.json --password-file=/home/smallstep/.step/pwd >> /var/log/smallstep/output.log 2>&1'
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Type=simple
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Restart=on-failure
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RestartSec=10
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[Install]
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WantedBy=multi-user.target
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```
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This also assumes you want logs going to a log file (we don't have a log rotation strategy at this time, perhaps the community can contribute :)
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To setup this, perform the following
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```
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$ mkdir /var/log/smallstep
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$ chown -R smallstep:smallstep /var/log/smallstep
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```
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Then do the following to startup the service.
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```
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$ systemctl status smallstep
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$ systemctl enable smallstep (startup on reboot automatically)
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$ systemctl start smallstep
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```
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If you have issues, you can debug by grabbing the execStart command from systemctl, sudo to smallstep, and start seeing what it is complaining about.
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### Kubernetes
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We publish [helm charts](https://hub.helm.sh/charts/smallstep/step-certificates) for easy installation on kubernetes:
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