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.
The output should look something like this:
After updating yum database, We can install rssh using dnf by running the following command:
Install rssh on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
The output should look something like this:
After updating yum database, We can install rssh using yum by running the following command:
How To Uninstall rssh on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the rssh package we can use the following command:
rssh Package Contents on Fedora 34
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rssh on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.