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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install rssh using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rssh
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install rssh using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rssh
How To Uninstall rssh on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the rssh package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rssh
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rssh on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
