How To Install samdump2 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install samdump2 on Rocky Linux 8. samdump2 is Retrieves syskey and extracts hashes from Windows 2k/NT/XP/Vista SAM

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install samdump2 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is samdump2

This tool is designed to recover the syskey bootkey from Windows NT/2K/XP/Vista system hive and uses it to decrypt and dump password hashes from the SAM hive.

We can use yum or dnf to install samdump2 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install samdump2.

Install samdump2 on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install samdump2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install samdump2

Install samdump2 on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install samdump2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install samdump2

How To Uninstall samdump2 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the samdump2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove samdump2

samdump2 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/samdump2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/88a1304465817f5e5e15b15cfb1ffec8d6ba7f
/usr/share/doc/samdump2
/usr/share/doc/samdump2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/samdump2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/samdump2/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/samdump2/README
/usr/share/man/man1/samdump2.1.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install samdump2 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.