How To Install scponly on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install scponly on Rocky Linux 8. scponly is Restricted shell for ssh based file services

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install scponly on Rocky Linux 8.

What is scponly

scponly is an alternative ‘shell’ for system administrators who would like to provide access to remote users to both read and write local files without providing any remote execution priviledges. Functionally, it is best described as a wrapper to the “tried and true” ssh suite of applications.

We can use yum or dnf to install scponly on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install scponly.

Install scponly 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 scponly using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install scponly

Install scponly 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 scponly using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install scponly

How To Uninstall scponly on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the scponly package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove scponly

scponly Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/scponly
/etc/scponly/debuglevel
/usr/bin/scponly
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/c9456ce9a6c1e28701c7153a64a3c9740a000d
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/c9456ce9a6c1e28701c7153a64a3c9740a000d.1
/usr/sbin/scponlyc
/usr/share/doc/scponly
/usr/share/doc/scponly/AUTHOR
/usr/share/doc/scponly/BUILDING-JAILS.TXT
/usr/share/doc/scponly/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/scponly/CONTRIB
/usr/share/doc/scponly/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/scponly/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/scponly/README
/usr/share/doc/scponly/SECURITY
/usr/share/doc/scponly/TODO
/usr/share/man/man8/scponly.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install scponly on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.