How To Install reaver on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install reaver on CentOS 7. reaver is Brute force attack against Wifi Protected Setup

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install reaver on CentOS 7.

What is reaver

Reaver implements a brute force attack against Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) registrar PINs in order to recover WPA/WPA2 passphrases, as described in http

We can use yum or dnf to install reaver on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install reaver.

Install reaver on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install reaver using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install reaver

Install reaver 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 reaver using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install reaver

How To Uninstall reaver on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the reaver package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove reaver

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install reaver on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.