How To Install rssh on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rssh
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rssh.
Install rssh on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install rssh
using yum
by running the following command:
Install rssh 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 rssh
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall rssh on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the rssh
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rssh
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.