RockYou is one of the most popular wordlists that contains common used passwords. The history of rockyou was best explained in the Darknet Diaries episode 33. This is a great podcast and you can listen to it the episode here.
As mentioned in the episode, the list is part of the default Kali Linux installation. Then again, it's archived and you have to extract it. How're we gonna do that? In a couple of simple steps.
First, run the below command:
cd /usr/share/wordlists
This will change your current working directory to the directory where the rockyou wordlist archive is located - in this case the path will be usr > share > wordlists folder.
Now, you can "list" the contents of the wordlists directory by using:
ls
We can see the .gz archive named rockyou.txt.gz. In order to extract it, use the following command:
gunzip rockyou.txt.gz
Now, if you use the "ls" command again, you'll see the extracted rockyou.txt file.
