Re: families
Paul Johnston <[email protected]>
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Hi, What do people actually use the plugin families for? Most uses I've seen mention seem to be from people who don't know how Nessus optimizations work in face of a closed port. For destructiveness, I don't think that's the job of the family to express. Also I don't think it's down to the family to do SANS top-20. My main interest in families was for processing results where lots of plugins have fired. For example, when no404 hasn't worked and all the CGI existence plugins fire. It would be nice to have a family of plugins that just check for a file existence and be able to remove them. In this vein, plugins that did some sort of positive check on the content returned by that file would go in a different family. Discussed with a colleague and he pointed out we don't need families for this - we can look at dependencies on no404.nasl. So my interest in families has dried up somewhat. Paul -- Paul Johnston Internet Security Specialist Westpoint Limited Albion Wharf, 19 Albion Street, Manchester, M1 5LN England Tel: +44 (0)161 237 1028 Fax: +44 (0)161 237 1031 email: [email protected] web: www.westpoint.ltd.uk _______________________________________________ Nessus-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus-devel