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diff --git a/network/hydra/README b/network/hydra/README index 693c60fc5d..f903822ae7 100644 --- a/network/hydra/README +++ b/network/hydra/README @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +Hydra (A very fast network login cracker) + One of the biggest security holes are user passwords, as every password security study shows. This tool is a proof of concept, to give researchers and security consultants a way to demonstrate @@ -6,3 +8,16 @@ how easy it would be to gain unauthorized access to a remote system. This requires libssh (not libssh2). postgresql is optional, as is sap, but sap is not available at SlackBuilds.org. + +This SlackBuild includes an option to omit the GTK-based frontend xhydra. +To omit xhydra, just pass XHYDRA=0 to the script: + XHYDRA=0 sh hydra.SlackBuild + +See the README installed in /usr/doc/hydra-7.1 for more info, or visit the +website: + http://freeworld.thc.org/thc-hydra + +NOTE: +There is a utility, dpl4hydra.sh, that is installed in the documentation +directory in this SlackBuild due to it being somewhat broken. + |