How To Install usbauth on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install usbauth on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install usbauth.
Install usbauth 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 usbauth using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install usbauth
Install usbauth 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 usbauth using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install usbauth
How To Uninstall usbauth on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the usbauth package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove usbauth
usbauth Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.opensuse.usbauth.conf
/etc/usbauth.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc/ce5464023b6ed76148a8599d9f422cff08169d
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.