How To Install usbauth on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install usbauth on CentOS 8.
What is usbauth
It is a firewall against BadUSB attacks. A config file describes in which way devices would be accepted.
We can use yum or dnf to install usbauth on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install usbauth.
Install usbauth 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 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install usbauth
Install usbauth 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 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install usbauth
How To Uninstall usbauth on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the usbauth package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove usbauth
usbauth Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.opensuse.usbauth.conf
/etc/usbauth.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/9b521eb73eec299c76e9172577d823e12c3cf9
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/20-usbauth.rules
/usr/sbin/usbauth
/usr/share/doc/usbauth
/usr/share/doc/usbauth/README
/usr/share/licenses/usbauth
/usr/share/licenses/usbauth/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/usbauth.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install usbauth on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
