How To Install sshexport on CentOS 8

sshexport is Install your SSH keys on remote sites

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sshexport on CentOS 8.

What is `sshexport`

This script tries to export SSH public keys to specified sites. It will walk the user through generating key pairs if it doesn’t find any to export. It handles all the fiddly details, like remembering the SSH key file names, updating the authorized_keys and making sure local and remote permissions are correct. It tells you what it’s doing if it has to change anything.

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

Install sshexport 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 sshexport using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sshexport

Install sshexport 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 sshexport using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sshexport

How To Uninstall sshexport on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove sshexport

sshexport Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/ssh-installkeys
/usr/bin/sshexport
/usr/share/doc/sshexport
/usr/share/doc/sshexport/README
/usr/share/doc/sshexport/sshexport.html
/usr/share/licenses/sshexport
/usr/share/licenses/sshexport/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ssh-installkeys.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sshexport.1.gz

References

sshexport website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sshexport on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.