How To Install scponly on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install scponly on Fedora 34.
What is scponly
scponly is an alternative ‘shell’ for system administrators who would like to provide access to remote users to both read and write local files without providing any remote execution priviledges. Functionally, it is best described as a wrapper to the “tried and true” ssh suite of applications.
We can use yum or dnf to install scponly on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install scponly.
Install scponly 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 scponly using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install scponly
Install scponly 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 scponly using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install scponly
How To Uninstall scponly on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the scponly package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove scponly
scponly Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/scponly
/etc/scponly/debuglevel
/usr/bin/scponly
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/966f963054b2316a9e7ba916c2d144cacc6bbb
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/966f963054b2316a9e7ba916c2d144cacc6bbb.1
/usr/sbin/scponlyc
/usr/share/doc/scponly
/usr/share/doc/scponly/AUTHOR
/usr/share/doc/scponly/BUILDING-JAILS.TXT
/usr/share/doc/scponly/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/scponly/CONTRIB
/usr/share/doc/scponly/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/scponly/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/scponly/README
/usr/share/doc/scponly/SECURITY
/usr/share/doc/scponly/TODO
/usr/share/man/man8/scponly.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install scponly on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.