changeme command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

changeme: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: changeme: command not found

Solutions to changeme: command not found

How To Fix changeme: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu changeme is provided by changeme package.

changeme is:

This package contains a default credential scanner. Commercial vulnerability scanners miss common default credentials. Getting default credentials added to commercial scanners is often difficult and slow. changeme is designed to be simple to add new credentials without having to write any code or modules.

changeme keeps credential data separate from code. All credentials are stored in yaml files so they can be both easily read by humans and processed by changeme. Credential files can be created by using the ./changeme.py –mkcred tool and answering a few questions.

changeme supports the http/https, MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres, ssh and ssh w/key protocols. Use ./changeme.py –dump to output all of the currently available credentials.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install changeme

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install changeme.

sudo apt -y install changeme

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install changeme

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix changeme command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.