How To Install dsniff on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dsniff on CentOS 7.
What is dsniff
A collection of tools for network auditing and penetration testing. Dsniff, filesnarf, mailsnarf, msgsnarf, urlsnarf and webspy allow to passively monitor a network for interesting data (passwords, e-mail, files). Arpspoof, dnsspoof and macof facilitate the interception of network traffic normally unavailable to an attacker (e.g, due to layer-2 switching). Sshmitm and webmitm implement active monkey-in-the-middle attacks against redirected SSH and HTTPS sessions by exploiting weak bindings in ad-hoc PKI.
We can use yum or dnf to install dsniff on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dsniff.
Install dsniff on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install dsniff using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dsniff
Install dsniff 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 dsniff using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dsniff
How To Uninstall dsniff on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the dsniff package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dsniff
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dsniff on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
