How To Install rootsh on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rootsh
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rootsh.
Install rootsh on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install rootsh
using yum
by running the following command:
Install rootsh on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install rootsh
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall rootsh on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the rootsh
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rootsh
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.