How To Install rootsh on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rootsh
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is rootsh
Rootsh is a wrapper for shells which logs all echoed keystrokes and terminal output to a file and/or to syslog. Its main purpose is the auditing of users who need a shell with root privileges. They start rootsh through the sudo mechanism.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install rootsh
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rootsh.
Install rootsh on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install rootsh
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rootsh
Install rootsh on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install rootsh
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rootsh
How To Uninstall rootsh on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the rootsh
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rootsh
rootsh Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/rootsh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/bddc28aea85e47d1d9479ca7913d2aed360a23
/usr/share/doc/rootsh
/usr/share/doc/rootsh/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rootsh/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/rootsh/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rootsh/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/rootsh/README
/usr/share/doc/rootsh/THANKS
/usr/share/man/man1/rootsh.1.gz
/var/log/rootsh
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rootsh
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.