How To Install cowpatty on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cowpatty on Fedora 34.
What is cowpatty
Cowpatty is designed to audit the pre-shared key (PSK) selection for WPA networks based on the TKIP protocol. It can perform both dictionary and computed rainbow table attacks.
We can use yum or dnf to install cowpatty on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cowpatty.
Install cowpatty on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cowpatty using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cowpatty
Install cowpatty on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cowpatty using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cowpatty
How To Uninstall cowpatty on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the cowpatty package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cowpatty
cowpatty Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/cowpatty
/usr/bin/genpmk
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/b685ca48157e5b40b5506061789a38d512f8d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/df46231ccec8d451d98a895b49b563cfe43b5d
/usr/share/doc/cowpatty
/usr/share/doc/cowpatty/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cowpatty/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/cowpatty/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cowpatty/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/cowpatty/README
/usr/share/doc/cowpatty/TODO
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cowpatty on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
