>> This is not necessarily a good answer. Depending on the original poster's >> circumstances, installing Linux on a dedicated system or dual boot may not >> be an option for him, and it may not be within his realm of control.
>If you are not at liberty to install Linux you are most likely not at >liberty to install or use a tool like Nessus anyway. There may be a reason he can't install Linux. You're assuming there is none. I would agree that if one's job duties legitimately involved the need to use such a tool as Nessus, it might be odd that one also would be prohibited from using Linux. Maybe the better path to take is to inquire why this person feels they can't use Linux (not to assume that they can or can't) and then proceed from that point. >Nessus on a free unix like Linux or bsd should fit that definition and >stay within almost any budget. I never mentioned anything about budget issues. I suspect the lack of flexibility granted people to use Linux often has little to do with budgetary issues, directly. This person may be at the mercy of the IT dept for his equipment. That IT dept may have no Linux savvy personnel within it and thus can't support Linux and has officially declare this to be the case (this could be construed as an indirect budgetary issue). It wouldn't matter if that person who has the equipment is able to handle his own Linux issues, he would be in violation of company policy (and thus subject to possible termination) to install Linux on company equipment since the IT dept has not included it on it's list of approved software. I would agree that the above scenario depicts a significant shortsightedness on the end of company policy but I don't think it's all that rare of a thing for people to have to somehow work with such conditions. The answer may well be to fight this and try to get a waiver to use Linux. He may have just been pursuing alternative solutions before he attempts to tackle that behemoth. On the other hand he may just be lazy and doesn't want to learn how to install and use Linux. I'm not sure we know which one is the case. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body.
