# Install legba with Homebrew, Nix, pacman

Multiprotocol credentials bruteforcer/password sprayer and enumerator. Version 1.3.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-22. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#legba.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:legba
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install legba
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#legba
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/le/legba/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S legba
```

  Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: legba from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:legba
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.3.0
- **Source summary:** Multiprotocol credentials bruteforcer/password sprayer and enumerator
- **Homepage:** <https://legba.evilsocket.net/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/evilsocket/legba>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-22T14:05:10-07:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- legba (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.3.0
## Project history and usage

Legba is Simone Margaritelli's Rust credential-testing CLI for authorized security work: a multi-protocol bruteforcer, password sprayer, and enumerator built around Tokio concurrency.

### Project history

The author presented Legba on 2023-11-02 as a project that began as Rust and Tokio practice and quickly became a replacement candidate for older credential attack tools such as THC-Hydra, Medusa, Patator, and related utilities. The official README and docs kept that framing: Rust, async execution, many protocol plugins, resumable sessions, rate controls, YAML recipes, a REST API, and an MCP server.

### Adoption history

Legba's adoption trail is mostly security-tool packaging rather than mainstream application development. Official materials show precompiled releases, Docker distribution, Homebrew installation through the author's tap, and later broader package-manager exposure through Homebrew, Nix, Arch packaging, and similar channels.

### How it is used

The CLI is used for authorized credential auditing across services such as SMB, SSH, HTTP forms, databases, LDAP, Kerberos, MQTT, and other supported plugins. The docs emphasize rate limiting, delays, jitter, session save/restore, recipes, and legal authorization, which are the practical controls that separate testing workflows from reckless brute forcing.

### Why package nerds care

Legba is notable to package nerds as an example of security tooling moving from C and Python heritage into single-binary Rust distribution. The interesting packaging angle is not just speed; it is a no-native-dependency binary shipped through releases, Docker, cargo, and OS package managers while carrying a large protocol surface.

### Timeline

- 2023-11-02: The author published the introductory Legba article.
- 2024-03-20: A Kali packaging request noted Arch package availability for Legba 0.8.0.
- 2025-08-22: The author noted static linking, precompiled binaries, and .deb assets in the Kali packaging thread.
- 2026-05-19: GitHub releases showed Legba 1.3.0.

### Related projects

- Related tools include THC-Hydra, Medusa, Ncrack, Patator, and protocol-specific credential auditing tools. Related distribution surfaces include Docker Hub, crates.io/lib.rs metadata, Homebrew taps, Arch packages, and security distributions such as Kali.

### Sources

- <https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=8682>
- <https://github.com/evilsocket/legba>
- <https://github.com/evilsocket/legba/releases>
- <https://legba.evilsocket.net/>
- <https://legba.evilsocket.net/faq/>
- <https://www.evilsocket.net/2023/11/02/Enumerate-Bruteforce-Attack-All-The-Things-Presenting-Legba/>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for legba. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - legba: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/le/legba/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman - legba - 1.3.0-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: legba from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A multiprotocol credentials bruteforcer / password sprayer and enumerator | https://github.com/evilsocket/legba


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/legba.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/legba.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph