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authorFoxfair Hu <foxfair@FreeBSD.org>1999-12-01 05:27:13 +0000
committerFoxfair Hu <foxfair@FreeBSD.org>1999-12-01 05:27:13 +0000
commit788058aac19acbfa1a51378395fa5a0dad7da89f (patch)
treee7008bb989c6764cb3ea568d12ef3b60efe48ba4 /security/nessus/pkg-descr
parentRe-enable readline support (diff)
PR: ports/14773
Submitted by: maintainer Update to 0.99.1, and disable nessus for compiling in -current. Original patch submitted by the maintainer, and some fixes from me.
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=23521
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-Nessus is a security scanner. That is, it's a program which will scan a
-given network and will seek for vulnerabilities which could be exploited
-by some remote intruder.
-
-The Nessus Project was originally started by Renaud Deraison
-(deraison@worldnet.fr). Many people contributed in many ways to the
-project, and the Nessus core team is now made up of Alexis de Bernis
-(alexisb@mygale.org), who is the Java specialist, Noam Rathaus
-(dolittle@isrealmail.com) who is in charge of the Nessus client for
-Windows, and Renaud Deraison who is still here and who is the project
-leader.
-
-Check the homepage at: http://www.nessus.org/
+The 'Nessus' Project was started in early 1998, and first released in
+April 1998. At this time, the most complete free security scanner was
+SATAN, which is clearly outdated, and you could see the emergence of
+several commercial ones, that were clearly too expensive.
+
+The Nessus Security Scanner is not only another security auditing tool. It
+is a security auditing as I think it should be - never trust the version
+number, never trust that a given service is listenning on the good port
+(do all the web servers on earth listen on port 80 ?).
+
+The Nessus Security Scanner is free, open-sourced and wants to be easy to
+use.
+
+WWW: http://www.nessus.org/
+
+PS: To install the lot in one operation, do nessus-plugins first.