How To Install ophcrack on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ophcrack in Fedora 36. ophcrack is Free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ophcrack on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ophcrack.

Install ophcrack on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ophcrack using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ophcrack

Install ophcrack on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

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

sudo dnf remove ophcrack

ophcrack Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/ophcrack
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/c6ad6a5c51d017590f8d6c16dd31f9e7b731b2
/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

ophcrack website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ophcrack on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).