How To Install usbauth on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install usbauth in Fedora 36. usbauth is USB firewall against BadUSB attacks

Introduction

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

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

Install usbauth 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 usbauth using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install usbauth

Install usbauth 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 usbauth using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install usbauth

How To Uninstall usbauth on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove usbauth

usbauth Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.opensuse.usbauth.conf
/etc/usbauth.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/be
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/489a86b3cc28a7bf774c14ffca1bac9ab59bab
/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

usbauth website

Summary

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