How To Install hydra on Fedora 34

hydra is Very fast network log-on cracker

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hydra on Fedora 34.

What is hydra

Hydra is a parallelized log-in cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack. New modules are easy to add, beside that, it is flexible and very fast. This tool gives researchers and security consultants the possibility to show how easy it would be to gain unauthorized access from remote to a system.

We can use yum or dnf to install hydra on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hydra.

Install hydra 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 hydra using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hydra

Install hydra 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 hydra using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hydra

How To Uninstall hydra on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove hydra

hydra Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/dpl4hydra.sh
/usr/bin/hydra
/usr/bin/hydra-wizard.sh
/usr/bin/pw-inspector
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/3b6114e874734dd83477c2f8a0109e66871897
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/3faff5816c14aa072db83f6fdafa6557d336c5
/usr/share/doc/hydra
/usr/share/doc/hydra/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/hydra/README.md
/usr/share/hydra
/usr/share/hydra/dpl4hydra_full.csv
/usr/share/hydra/dpl4hydra_local.csv
/usr/share/licenses/hydra
/usr/share/licenses/hydra/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/hydra/LICENSE.OPENSSL
/usr/share/man/man1/hydra.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pw-inspector.1.gz
/usr/bin/dpl4hydra.sh
/usr/bin/hydra
/usr/bin/hydra-wizard.sh
/usr/bin/pw-inspector
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/41
/usr/lib/.build-id/41/82256c2e42f9c7493c3a5ad982929b775e7767
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/ec5f911de33e936e21425468f46275399b885e
/usr/share/doc/hydra
/usr/share/doc/hydra/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/hydra/README.md
/usr/share/hydra
/usr/share/hydra/dpl4hydra_full.csv
/usr/share/hydra/dpl4hydra_local.csv
/usr/share/licenses/hydra
/usr/share/licenses/hydra/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/hydra/LICENSE.OPENSSL
/usr/share/man/man1/hydra.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pw-inspector.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hydra on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.