How To Install rootsh on Fedora 34

rootsh is Shell wrapper for auditing

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rootsh on Fedora 34.

What is rootsh

Rootsh is a wrapper for shells which logs all echoed keystrokes and terminal output to a file and/or to syslog. Its main purpose is the auditing of users who need a shell with root privileges. They start rootsh through the sudo mechanism.

We can use yum or dnf to install rootsh on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rootsh.

Install rootsh on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install rootsh using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rootsh

Install rootsh on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install rootsh using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rootsh

How To Uninstall rootsh on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove rootsh

rootsh Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/rootsh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/9767a192451cc05c800e22ad766bfa1982b743
/usr/share/doc/rootsh
/usr/share/doc/rootsh/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rootsh/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/rootsh/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rootsh/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/rootsh/README
/usr/share/doc/rootsh/THANKS
/usr/share/man/man1/rootsh.1.gz
/var/log/rootsh

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rootsh on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.