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.
After updating yum database, We can install bkhive
using yum
by running the following command:
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.
After updating yum database, We can install bkhive
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall bkhive on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the bkhive
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bkhive
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.