How To Install sshguard-nftables on CentOS 8

sshguard-nftables is Configuration for nftables backend of SSHGuard

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sshguard-nftables on CentOS 8.

What is sshguard-nftables

Sshguard-nftables provides a configuration file for SSHGuard to use nftables as the firewall backend.

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

Install sshguard-nftables 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 sshguard-nftables using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sshguard-nftables

Install sshguard-nftables 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 sshguard-nftables using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sshguard-nftables

How To Uninstall sshguard-nftables on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the sshguard-nftables package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sshguard-nftables

sshguard-nftables Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/sshguard.conf

References

Summary

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