How To Install usbauth-notifier on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install usbauth-notifier in Fedora 36. usbauth-notifier is Notifier for USB Firewall to use with desktop environments

Introduction

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

What is usbauth-notifier

A notifier for the usbauth firewall against BadUSB attacks. The user could manually allow or deny USB devices.

We can use yum or dnf to install usbauth-notifier on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install usbauth-notifier.

Install usbauth-notifier 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-notifier using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install usbauth-notifier

Install usbauth-notifier 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-notifier using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install usbauth-notifier

How To Uninstall usbauth-notifier on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove usbauth-notifier

usbauth-notifier Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/xdg/autostart
/etc/xdg/autostart/usbauth-notifier.desktop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/ed8cd32935b9f8750ff03ba61d9ba115c461e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd/bfce49bf004d455e0fbe67b9610f0b2b3d7058
/usr/libexec/usbauth-notifier
/usr/libexec/usbauth-notifier/usbauth-notifier
/usr/libexec/usbauth-npriv
/usr/share/doc/usbauth-notifier
/usr/share/doc/usbauth-notifier/README
/usr/share/licenses/usbauth-notifier
/usr/share/licenses/usbauth-notifier/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/usbauth-notifier.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/usbauth-notifier.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/usbauth-notifier.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/usbauth-npriv.1.gz

References

Summary

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