From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 24 16:55:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from totem.freenix.no (totem.freenix.no [195.0.166.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82E74152B6; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 16:55:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anders@totem.freenix.no) Received: (from anders@localhost) by totem.freenix.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA94532; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 01:55:22 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 01:55:22 +0100 From: Anders Nordby To: foxfair@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/14773: Update-port: security/nessus Message-ID: <19991125015522.A94488@totem.fix.no> References: <199911181453.GAA96089@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199911181453.GAA96089@freefall.freebsd.org>; from foxfair@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 06:53:01AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE X-Disclaimer: Listen, and thou shall not fear. Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Apply this to update the port to 0.99.1. This also fixes the DESCR. diff -Nur nessus.old/Makefile nessus/Makefile --- nessus.old/Makefile Thu Nov 25 00:19:41 1999 +++ nessus/Makefile Thu Nov 25 01:04:03 1999 @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ # $FreeBSD: ports/security/nessus/Makefile,v 1.3 1999/08/31 01:51:19 peter Exp $ # -DISTNAME= nessus-core-0.98.4 -PKGNAME= nessus-0.98.4 +DISTNAME= nessus-core-0.99.1 +PKGNAME= nessus-0.99.1 CATEGORIES= security MASTER_SITES= ftp://ftp.cis.fed.gov/pub/nessus/nessus-${NESSUS_REV}/ \ ftp://ftp.nessus.org/pub/nessus/nessus-${NESSUS_REV}/ \ diff -Nur nessus.old/files/md5 nessus/files/md5 --- nessus.old/files/md5 Thu Nov 25 00:19:41 1999 +++ nessus/files/md5 Thu Nov 25 00:34:24 1999 @@ -1 +1 @@ -MD5 (nessus/nessus-core-0.98.4.tar.gz) = 75af8d9f84478153e5e972ced47e0750 +MD5 (nessus/nessus-core-0.99.1.tar.gz) = a2bac198ccc9fbcf3af0a11270feed74 diff -Nur nessus.old/pkg/DESCR nessus/pkg/DESCR --- nessus.old/pkg/DESCR Thu Nov 25 00:19:41 1999 +++ nessus/pkg/DESCR Thu Nov 25 00:23:52 1999 @@ -1,15 +1,16 @@ -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 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 At this time, the most complete free security scanner was +SATAN, which is clearly outdated, and you could see the emergence of +several commercial ones, that were clearly too expensive.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 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. +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 ?). -Check the homepage at: http://www.nessus.org/ +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. -- Anders Nordby ^ anders@fix.no ^ http://anders.fix.no/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message