dsniff - password sniffer
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Bugs
dsniff's automatic protocol detection feature is based on the classic file(1) command by Ian Darwin, and shares its historical limitations and bugs. DSNIFF(8)
Description
dsniff is a password sniffer which handles FTP, Telnet, SMTP, HTTP, POP, poppass, NNTP, IMAP, SNMP, LDAP,
Rlogin, RIP, OSPF, PPTP MS-CHAP, NFS, VRRP, YP/NIS, SOCKS, X11, CVS, IRC, AIM, ICQ, Napster, PostgreSQL,
Meeting Maker, Citrix ICA, Symantec pcAnywhere, NAI Sniffer, Microsoft SMB, Oracle SQL*Net, Sybase and
Microsoft SQL protocols.
dsniff automatically detects and minimally parses each application protocol, only saving the interesting
bits, and uses Berkeley DB as its output file format, only logging unique authentication attempts. Full
TCP/IP reassembly is provided by libnids(3).
I wrote dsniff with honest intentions - to audit my own network, and to demonstrate the insecurity of
cleartext network protocols. Please do not abuse this software.
Files
/usr/share/dsniff/dsniff.services
Default trigger table
/usr/share/dsniff/dsniff.magic
Network protocol magic
Name
dsniff - password sniffer
Options
-c Perform half-duplex TCP stream reassembly, to handle asymmetrically routed traffic (such as when
using arpspoof(8) to intercept client traffic bound for the local gateway).
-d Enable debugging mode.
-m Enable automatic protocol detection.
-n Do not resolve IP addresses to hostnames.
-iinterface
Specify the interface to listen on.
-ppcapfile
Rather than processing the contents of packets observed upon the network process the given PCAP
capture file.
-ssnaplen
Analyze at most the first snaplen bytes of each TCP connection, rather than the default of 1024.
-fservices
Load triggers from a services file.
-ttrigger[,...]
Load triggers from a comma-separated list, specified as port/proto=service (e.g. 80/tcp=http).
-rsavefile
Read sniffed sessions from a savefile created with the -w option.
-wfile
Write sniffed sessions to savefile rather than parsing and printing them out.
expression
Specify a tcpdump(8) filter expression to select traffic to sniff.
On a hangup signal dsniff will dump its current trigger table to dsniff.services.
See Also
arpspoof(8), libnids(3), services(5), magic(5)
Synopsis
dsniff [-c] [-d] [-m] [-n] [-iinterface | -ppcapfile] [-ssnaplen] [-fservices] [-ttrigger[,...]]]
[-r|-wsavefile] [expression]
