How To Install scanssh on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install scanssh in Fedora 36. scanssh is Fast SSH server and open proxy scanner

Introduction

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

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

Install scanssh 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 scanssh using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install scanssh

Install scanssh 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 scanssh using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install scanssh

How To Uninstall scanssh on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove scanssh

scanssh Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/scanssh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/06
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/f036b2750d4457b83fdb3028df849c18f8bb52
/usr/share/doc/scanssh
/usr/share/doc/scanssh/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/scanssh.1.gz

References

scanssh website

Summary

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