Installing Seclists

A curated set of wordlists from the security community, including usernames, passwords, URLs, sensitive data patterns, fuzzing payloads, and much more.

GitHub can be slow in some regions.

Fix: Use a mirror or download the release tarball: installing seclists

wget https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/archive/refs/tags/2024.1.zip
unzip 2024.1.zip

Use awk to only keep passwords over 8 characters: A curated set of wordlists from the security

awk 'length($0) >= 8' my_clean_list.txt > long_passwords.txt

List the contents to ensure everything is there: GitHub can be slow in some regions

ls /usr/share/wordlists/SecLists/

You should see folders like:

john --wordlist=/usr/share/seclists/Passwords/Leaked-Databases/rockyou.txt hash.txt

This is where the famous rockyou.txt lives.