Re: Help with local security checks

Renaud Deraison <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:51:55AM -0400, George Theall wrote:
> These warnings indicate the trusted scripts are not signed properly. From
> what I understand, Renaud is on vacation and he's the only one with access
> to the private key used for this.

Yes. Trusted scripts is a new thing and we need to get our act together
for such cases - I fixed the issue in CVS now, but this may happen again
while we're in the 2.1.x phase.

[...]
> Aside: the presence of this configurable variable kind of defeats the
> idea of trusted scripts, doesn't it? 

No. The idea of the trusted scripts is to make sure that the scripts you
obtain (as a user) are the one we wrote (as the authors). Nothing else.


				-- Renaud
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