How To Install medusa on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install medusa on Debian 11.
What is medusa
medusa is:
Medusa is intended to be a speedy, massively parallel, modular, login brute-forcer. The goal is to support as many services which allow remote authentication as possible. The author considers following items as some of the key features of this application: * Thread-based parallel testing. Brute-force testing can be performed against multiple hosts, users or passwords concurrently. * Flexible user input. Target information (host/user/password) can be specified in a variety of ways. For example, each item can be either a single entry or a file containing multiple entries. Additionally, a combination file format allows the user to refine their target listing. * Modular design. Each service module exists as an independent .mod file. This means that no modifications are necessary to the core application in order to extend the supported list of services for brute-forcing.
There are three methods to install medusa on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install medusa Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install medusa using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install medusa
Install medusa Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install medusa using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install medusa
Install medusa Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install medusa using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install medusa
How To Uninstall medusa on Debian 11
To uninstall only the medusa package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove medusa
Uninstall medusa And Its Dependencies
To uninstall medusa and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove medusa
Remove medusa Configurations and Data
To remove medusa configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge medusa
Remove medusa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove medusa configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge medusa
Dependencies
medusa have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install medusa package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
