How To Install rootsh on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install rootsh on CentOS 7. rootsh is Shell wrapper for auditing

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.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install rootsh

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.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install rootsh

How To Uninstall rootsh on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove rootsh

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rootsh on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.