How To Install ophcrack on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ophcrack on Fedora 34.
What is ophcrack
Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms. Features * Runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, … * Cracks LM and NTLM hashes. * Free tables available for Windows XP and Vista. * Brute-force module for simple passwords. * Audit mode and CSV export. * Real-time graphs to analyze the passwords. * LiveCD available to simplify the cracking. * Loads hashes from encrypted SAM recovered from a Windows partition, Vista included. * Free and open source software (GPL).
We can use yum or dnf to install ophcrack on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ophcrack.
Install ophcrack 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 ophcrack using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ophcrack
Install ophcrack 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 ophcrack using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ophcrack
How To Uninstall ophcrack on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ophcrack package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ophcrack
ophcrack Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/ophcrack
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/2fb57d6a56f665924e710bef9036d5b3c5bdee
/usr/share/applications/ophcrack.desktop
/usr/share/doc/ophcrack
/usr/share/doc/ophcrack/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ophcrack/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ophcrack/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/ophcrack/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/ophcrack/LICENSE.OpenSSL
/usr/share/doc/ophcrack/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ophcrack/README.md
/usr/share/pixmaps/ophcrack.png
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ophcrack on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.