How To Install rssh on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install rssh in Fedora 36. rssh is Restricted shell for use with OpenSSH, allowing only scp and/or sftp

Introduction

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

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

Install rssh 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 rssh using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rssh

Install rssh 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 rssh using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rssh

How To Uninstall rssh on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove rssh

rssh Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/rssh.conf
/usr/bin/rssh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/23850358619cd7ea8e50ece2792a8e44213c47
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b/42438bb73eb93f16d788e24310737bc5db0616
/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 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).