How To Install scponly on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install scponly on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install scponly.
Install scponly on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install scponly using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install scponly
Install scponly on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 CentOS 8
To uninstall only the scponly package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove scponly
scponly Package Contents on CentOS 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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.