How To Install hydra on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hydra on CentOS 7.
What is hydra
Hydra is a parallelized log-in cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack. New modules are easy to add, beside that, it is flexible and very fast. This tool gives researchers and security consultants the possibility to show how easy it would be to gain unauthorized access from remote to a system.
We can use yum or dnf to install hydra on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hydra.
Install hydra on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install hydra using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hydra
Install hydra 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 hydra using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hydra
How To Uninstall hydra on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the hydra package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hydra
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hydra on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.