How To Install scanssh on Fedora 34

scanssh is Fast SSH server and open proxy scanner

Introduction

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

What is scanssh

ScanSSH supports scanning a list of addresses and networks for open proxies, SSH protocol servers, Web and SMTP servers. Where possible ScanSSH, displays the version number of the running services. ScanSSH protocol scanner supports random selection of IP addresses from large network ranges and is useful for gathering statistics on the deployment of SSH protocol servers in a company or the Internet as whole.

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

Install scanssh 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 scanssh using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install scanssh

Install scanssh 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 scanssh using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install scanssh

How To Uninstall scanssh on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove scanssh

scanssh Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/scanssh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/58
/usr/lib/.build-id/58/be8ae540762f3dbaf9c844ad11f86a149a6aaf
/usr/share/doc/scanssh
/usr/share/doc/scanssh/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/scanssh.1.gz

References

Summary

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