On Dienstag, 15. Januar 2008, Michel Arboi wrote:
> On Jan 14, 2008 12:25 PM, Jan-Oliver Wagner
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > We have the opportunity to kick out all the Tenable Debian Local Secrity
> > Checks
>
> That's a big task, because there are so many Tenable DSA checks. Let's
> count them:
> $ ls debian_DSA-*.nasl | wc -l
> 1441
> $ egrep -i copyright.*tenable debian_DSA-*.nasl | wc -l
> 0
> $
> Oops...
hm, indeed the copyright is with Michel Arboi.
My fault. I always was under impression that you
were closely related to Tenable and also your contributions
stopped when Tenable stopped the GPL feed.
So I assumed these scripts were under control of Tenble
and didn't check back. Sorry.
> > and replace them by GPLed ones
>
> Great. You replaced open sourced scripts by scripts which are released
> under an open source licence.
> This is a major improvement.
It is a no-brainer and yes, it is a mojor improvement. Since you stopped
(to my best knowldge) to publish debian local security checks beyond
debian_DSA-1320.nasl as Free Software (your company policy might
have to do something with it, so I really do not accuse you about doing so)
we need another solution anyway.
No-brainer because the automation was simply applied to all DSAs ;-)
Also technically this is a good idea to replace them all along, because
the new set use (IMHO) a better name scheme for using the KB
and replacing all of the scripts gives us a consistent scheme.
> > contributed by SecuritySpace.
>
> No problem for me by the way. I was never satisfied by my DSA scripts.
Can you explain why you are not satisfied?
> > Of course it is only a single family
>
> You should also get rid of all Slackware and Gentoo local security
> checks from Tenable.
Sure. Also these have not been continued as Free Software
(to my best knowledge).
Any volunteer supporters for these familes, please raise your hand :-)
Basically you need to develop a converter script and react on new
alerts.
Best
Jan
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