From owner-freebsd-ports-bugs Thu Jan 30 23:30:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F2A237B405 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 23:30:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3443843FA3 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 23:30:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0V7U9NS051532 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 23:30:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0V7U9ov051531; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 23:30:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5751C37B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 23:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from thoth.sbs.de (thoth.sbs.de [192.35.17.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E8D43F43 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 23:23:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from udo.schweigert@siemens.com) Received: from mail3.siemens.de (mail3.siemens.de [139.25.208.14]) by thoth.sbs.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0V7Mx629719 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:22:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from mars.cert.siemens.de (ust.mchp.siemens.de [139.23.201.17]) by mail3.siemens.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0V7MxU25566 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:22:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from alaska.cert.siemens.de (alaska.cert.siemens.de [139.23.202.134]) by mars.cert.siemens.de (8.12.7/8.12.7/$SiemensCERT: mail/cert.mc,v 1.40 2003/01/07 15:49:50 ust Exp $) with ESMTP id h0V7MwDQ064807 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:22:58 +0100 (CET) Received: from alaska.cert.siemens.de (alaska.cert.siemens.de [127.0.0.1]) by alaska.cert.siemens.de (8.12.7/8.12.7/$Ust: hosts/alaska/mail/config.mc,v 1.15 2002/12/31 15:32:17 ust Exp $) with ESMTP id h0V7Mwdr074572 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:22:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ust@alaska.cert.siemens.de) Received: (from ust@localhost) by alaska.cert.siemens.de (8.12.7/8.12.7/$Ust: hosts/alaska/mail/submit.mc,v 1.4 2002/12/31 15:32:17 ust Exp $) id h0V7Mw4W051405; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:22:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ust) Message-Id: <200301310722.h0V7Mw4W051405@alaska.cert.siemens.de> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:22:58 +0100 (CET) From: Udo Schweigert Reply-To: Udo Schweigert To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.113 Subject: ports/47708: maintainer-update of security/nessus Sender: owner-freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >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