How To Install usbauth on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install usbauth on Rocky Linux 8. usbauth is USB firewall against BadUSB attacks

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install usbauth on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `usbauth`

It is a firewall against BadUSB attacks. A config file describes in which way devices would be accepted.

We can use yum or dnf to install usbauth on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install usbauth.

Install usbauth on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install usbauth

Install usbauth on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install usbauth

How To Uninstall usbauth on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove usbauth

usbauth Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.opensuse.usbauth.conf
/etc/usbauth.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/9b521eb73eec299c76e9172577d823e12c3cf9
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/20-usbauth.rules
/usr/sbin/usbauth
/usr/share/doc/usbauth
/usr/share/doc/usbauth/README
/usr/share/licenses/usbauth
/usr/share/licenses/usbauth/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/usbauth.1.gz

References

usbauth website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install usbauth on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.