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Linux Package Management Cheat Sheet/Find package owning a file

Identify which rpm package owns a path.

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Section: DNF and Yum for RHEL family

Find package owning a file

bash
bash
rpm -qf /usr/sbin/sshd
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Useful for auditing binaries and config origins.

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