How To Install bkhive on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bkhive on CentOS 7.
What is bkhive
This tool is designed to recover the syskey bootkey from a Windows NT/2K/XP system hive. Then we can decrypt the SAM file with the syskey and dump password hashes. Syskey is a Windows feature that adds an additional encryption layer to the password hashes stored in the SAM database.
We can use yum or dnf to install bkhive on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bkhive.
Install bkhive on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install bkhive using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bkhive
Install bkhive on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install bkhive using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bkhive
How To Uninstall bkhive on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the bkhive package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bkhive
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bkhive on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.