Hi all, per this blog: http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/nessus/page/3/ (search down the page for 11936)
The listed plugins are used to determine the identify of the OS on the target host. I don't see output of telnet listed there -- would this be ignored as a factor in determining the OS? In other words: $ telnet hostname Trying 10.27.52.76... Connected to hostname. Escape character is '^]'. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga) Kernel 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 on an x86_64 login: telnet> quit It seems that this could be used with a high degree of confidence in determining that this machine is a RHEL 5.2 machine :) Instead, with the above host and 11936 enabled, I get only a 30% chance that the machine is running the "Linux kernel". Anyone know on the telnet thing? Thanks, Ray _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
