How To Install rssh on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rssh on Fedora 34.
What is rssh
rssh is a restricted shell for use with OpenSSH, allowing only scp and/or sftp. For example, if you have a server which you only want to allow users to copy files off of via scp, without providing shell access, you can use rssh to do that. It is a alternative to scponly.
We can use yum or dnf to install rssh on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rssh.
Install rssh 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 rssh using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rssh
Install rssh 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 rssh using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rssh
How To Uninstall rssh on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the rssh package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rssh
rssh Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/rssh.conf
/usr/bin/rssh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/cc813fd71f5b9b12af00185b506e6abbb803a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/f6bb0e3275a1299ba111e9291f9cfdf526944f
/usr/libexec/rssh_chroot_helper
/usr/share/doc/rssh
/usr/share/doc/rssh/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rssh/CHROOT
/usr/share/doc/rssh/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rssh/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rssh/README
/usr/share/doc/rssh/SECURITY
/usr/share/doc/rssh/TODO
/usr/share/doc/rssh/conf_convert.sh
/usr/share/doc/rssh/mkchroot.sh
/usr/share/licenses/rssh
/usr/share/licenses/rssh/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/rssh.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/rssh.conf.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rssh on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.