Re: Help with local security checks

George Theall <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:17:35PM +0200, Renaud Deraison wrote:

> Because if you can change the configuration file, then you are root. If
> you are root, you can already execute commands with super-user
> privileges. 

Not everyone managing a Nessus server will have full root authority; no
doubt some will supposedly be constrained by sudo and the like. 

> There's nothing Nessus can do to lower the damages you can
> do.

Because signature checking can be disabled, I have to agree. 

George
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