How To Install pcredz on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pcredz
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is pcredz
pcredz is:
Pcredz extracts and dumps authentication information from either a live network capture or a pcap dump file. It works on the following (unencrypted) protocols:
- POP
- SMTP
- IMAP
- SNMP community string
- FTP
- HTTP Basic
- NTLMv1/v2 (DCE-RPC,SMBv1/2,LDAP, MSSQL, HTTP, etc)
- Kerberos (AS-REQ Pre-Auth etype 23) hashes.
It can also optionally, although with far lesser certainty, print sniffed strings that appear to be credit card numbers.
There are three methods to install pcredz
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pcredz Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pcredz
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pcredz
Install pcredz Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pcredz
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pcredz
Install pcredz Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install pcredz
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pcredz
How To Uninstall pcredz on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the pcredz
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pcredz
Uninstall pcredz And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pcredz
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pcredz
Remove pcredz Configurations and Data
To remove pcredz
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pcredz
Remove pcredz configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pcredz
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pcredz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pcredz
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.