How To Install usbauth-notifier on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install usbauth-notifier on CentOS 8.
What is usbauth-notifier
A notifier for the usbauth firewall against BadUSB attacks. The user could manually allow or deny USB devices.
We can use yum or dnf to install usbauth-notifier on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install usbauth-notifier.
Install usbauth-notifier 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 usbauth-notifier using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install usbauth-notifier
Install usbauth-notifier 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 usbauth-notifier using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install usbauth-notifier
How To Uninstall usbauth-notifier on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the usbauth-notifier package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove usbauth-notifier
usbauth-notifier Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/xdg/autostart
/etc/xdg/autostart/usbauth-notifier.desktop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/b9aff9b054d3fd0439346fcdbb6797aeb4d624
/usr/lib/.build-id/48
/usr/lib/.build-id/48/bc812d6fb9e41689b6b19b5348e6a547d9ca4e
/usr/libexec/usbauth-notifier
/usr/libexec/usbauth-notifier/usbauth-notifier
/usr/libexec/usbauth-npriv
/usr/share/doc/usbauth-notifier
/usr/share/doc/usbauth-notifier/README
/usr/share/licenses/usbauth-notifier
/usr/share/licenses/usbauth-notifier/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/usbauth-notifier.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/usbauth-notifier.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/usbauth-notifier.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/usbauth-npriv.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install usbauth-notifier on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.