Re: Help with local security checks
Renaud Deraison <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.nessus.devel |
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On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 02:02:07PM -0400, George Theall wrote: > 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. Ah - I understand your point now. I can include a ./configure option to disable this option, that should be easy enough. -- Renaud _______________________________________________ Nessus-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus-devel