Hydra compiled without LIBSSH support

[Securethoughts]

Hi guys,

Seems like the copy of Hydra in the BT4 pre-final is still lacking SSH2 support.

# hydra -s 22 test.com ssh2

returns:

Error: Compiled without LIBSSH support, module not available!

A fix for this was posted in the BT4 beta bugs & fixes forum (can't post links yet), but it would be nice to have native SSH2 support in the final release.
[Update] This fix did not seem to work for me... see below.

Thanks.

[Securethoughts]

After trying for a while, here is what I needed to do to get it working:

Download Hydra 5.4 (hxxp://freeworld.thc.org/thc-hydra)

sudo apt-get install libssh-2-dev

Download this patch to make Hydra work with libssh 2:
hxxp://0xbadc0de.be/libssh/hydra-libssh0.2.patch

Untar hydra and apply patch:
cd /path/to/hydra; patch -p1 < /path/to/patch

'./configure' (you should see that libssh was detected)

'nano Makefile' and remove '-DLIBPOSTGRES' and '-lpq'

'make' (should compile fine)

'sudo make install'

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If you still have problems type 'dpkg -l | grep libssh' and make sure you don't have libssh2-1 installed.

[caissyd]

Thanks man, the fix works well.

[manulu]

If you still have problems type 'dpkg -l | grep libssh' and make sure you don't have libssh2-1 installed.

and what if yes i do have it; how do i unistall it?

[Securethoughts]

and what if yes i do have it; how do i unistall it?

sudo apt-get remove libssh2-1

[Kr0n1kK1ll3r]

I have completed all these steps and have gone through them multiple times. Is this a sign that I have libssh2-1 installed?

# dpkg -l | grep libssh
ii libssh-2 0.2+svn20070321-4 A tiny C SSH library
ii libssh-2-dev 0.2+svn20070321-4 A tiny C SSH library. Development files
rc libssh2-1 0.18-1 SSH2 client-side library

If so when I try and remove it, it will not remove. Any ideas? I just want good ol' hydra to work. BT3 works great. Thank you!