Re: BOSS project: Concept paper for Nessus improvements

Jan-Oliver Wagner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi David,

[ I am answering to nessus-devel as it might be of general interest ]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 12:58:52PM +0200, David Maciejak wrote:
> I just quickly read your pdf,
> 
> I don’t understand why you want to do SLAD agent which need to be compiled
> on target system.
> 
> You can do that (launch commands and return results) from local security
> check that comes with nessus devel branch

I am not the designer of BOSS - Lukas can give a detailed answer for sure.

However, with SLAD we want to avoid having the whole nessus server
installed on a system that is suspected to be compromised itself.
To my understanding it makes sense to have nessusd only on
a system where you are pretty sure it is not compromised - otherwise
the reported results could already be faked.

But your question is a very valid one.
We should add a section to the concept that exactly explains this
question: Why don't we use nessusd's new features for local
security check.

Thanks a lot

	Jan
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