How To Install p0f on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install p0f
on CentOS 7.
What is p0f
P0f is a versatile passive OS fingerprinting tool. P0f can identify the system on machines that talk thru or near your box. p0f will also check masquerading and firewall presence, the distance to the remote system and its uptime, other guy’s network hookup (DSL, OC3, avian carriers) and his ISP.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install p0f
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install p0f.
Install p0f on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install p0f
using yum
by running the following command:
Install p0f 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 p0f
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall p0f on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the p0f
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install p0f
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.