HOWTO: Install THC-Hydra 5.4 in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
Wikipedia describes THC-Hydra as “… software … that uses a dictionary attack to test for weak or simple passwords on one or many remote hosts running a variety of different services.” Its useful for doing quick tests against your servers to make sure that your users are not using simple passwords. In pen tester speak, this is called a brute-force attack.
Installing THC-Hydra on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex can be a bit of a pain. Here is how I did it.
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