How To Install rootsh on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install rootsh in Fedora 36. rootsh is Shell wrapper for auditing

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rootsh on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rootsh.

Install rootsh on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install rootsh

Install rootsh on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

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

sudo dnf remove rootsh

rootsh Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/rootsh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9/8e88ee14f8cc123c9b168aa80bfffa0701a524
/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

rootsh website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rootsh on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).