Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:22:58 +0100 (CET) From: Udo Schweigert <udo.schweigert@siemens.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/47708: maintainer-update of security/nessus Message-ID: <200301310722.h0V7Mw4W051405@alaska.cert.siemens.de>
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>Number: 47708 >Category: ports >Synopsis: maintainer-update of security/nessus >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: maintainer-update >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 30 23:30:08 PST 2003 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Udo Schweigert >Release: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD alaska.cert.siemens.de 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #41: Fri Jan 24 15:08:12 CET 2003 ust@alaska.cert.siemens.de:/usr/obj/work/src/RELENG_4/sys/alaska i386 >Description: Update the outdated pkg-descr as requested by the nessus developer. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: diff -u /usr/ports/security/nessus/pkg-descr nessus/pkg-descr --- /usr/ports/security/nessus/pkg-descr Wed Dec 1 06:27:13 1999 +++ nessus/pkg-descr Fri Jan 31 08:14:57 2003 @@ -1,15 +1,12 @@ -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 At this time, the most complete free security scanner was -SATAN, which is clearly outdated, and you could see the emergence of -several commercial ones, that were clearly too expensive. +Nessus is a security scanner that crawls across a network, looking +for well-known vulnerabilities and common misconfiguration. -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 ?). +It has a unique set of features, including automatic SSL discovery, +services recognition (so it will catch, for instance, a FTP server +running on a port different than 21) and its own scripting language. -The Nessus Security Scanner is free, open-sourced and wants to be easy to -use. +The Nessus Security Scanner is released under the GNU General Public +Licence and aims to be easy to use while extremely powerful. WWW: http://www.nessus.org/ >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports-bugs" in the body of the message
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