ERROR Compiled without support for LIBSSH v0.4.x, module not available

Question

I would like to play with hydra on my OSX, but I can not understand what the problem is.

brew info hydra 

output:

 hydra: stable 8.3 (bottled), HEAD Network logon cracker which supports many services https://www.thc.org/thc-hydra/ /usr/local/Cellar/hydra/8.3 (14 files, 1.2M) * Poured from bottle on 2016-08-20 at 15:28:25 From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/hydra.rb ==> Dependencies Build: pkg-config ✘ Required: openssl ✔ Optional: subversion ✘, libidn ✘, libssh ✔, pcre ✘, gtk+ ✘ ==> Options --with-gtk+ Build with gtk+ support --with-libidn Build with libidn support --with-libssh Build with libssh support --with-pcre Build with pcre support --with-subversion Build with subversion support --HEAD Install HEAD version 

When I try to run:

 hydra -l user -P /Users/alex/Downloads/list_pwd.txt 192.168.1.3 ssh 

I get:

 [ERROR] Compiled without LIBSSH v0.4.x support, module is not available! 

Answer 1

I just stumbled upon this error today, and it seems that they essentially do not compile it with hydra, but it should be easy enough to make it manually. This is what I did to make it work:

 brew uninstall hydra brew install -v --with-libssh hydra 

This should compile the hydra with the appropriate ssh module and it should be useful to switch the -v option only to confirm that there were no errors with libssh during compilation.