esday, August 04, 2009 8:51 AM
To: Joseph Abbotts
Cc: debian-security@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Nessus to be removed from Debian, please switch to OpenVAS
- possibly in Non-Free repositories?
2009/8/4 Joseph Abbotts :
> I'm all for having more tools to help settle my healthy paranoi
ak PR noise to keep it great.
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino [mailto:jav...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Javier
> Fernández-Sanguino Peña
> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 2:03 PM
> To: Debian Security
> Cc: openvas-distro-...@wald.intevation.org
&
2009/8/4 Joseph Abbotts :
> I'm all for having more tools to help settle my healthy paranoia but I'm not
> seeing the server package:
Because, as I said in my email, this is only available in Unstable.
Openvas-server did not get released with Debian lenny (stable) and, in
any case, Nessus will no
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino [mailto:jav...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Javier
Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 2:03 PM
To: Debian Security
Cc: openvas-distro-...@wald.intevation.org
Subject: Nessus to be removed from Debian, please switch to OpenVAS
Dear All,
I've rece
* Javier Fernandez-Sanguino (j...@debian.org) wrote:
> Actually, I rather not have Nessus shipped with any other Debian
> stable release as it is in the best interest of Debian and its users
> to only provide software that is actively being maintained upstream.
If someone picked it up to maintain
2009/8/3 Simon Ward :
> I wasn’t meaning to put pressure on a single person. Sure, if there is
> enough demand, someone else, maybe me (although unlikely) could pick up
> package maintenance. I was merely expressing my opinion that there is
> still a need for Nessus 2 for a little while longer.
2009/8/3 Stephen Frost :
> * Tim Brown (t...@nth-dimension.org.uk) wrote:
>> I don't see what there is to gain by asking Javier to split his efforts in
>> continuing to maintain Nessus when he has expressed a preference to allow
>> OpenVAS to take its place and has made significant contributions to
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 01:38:03AM +0100, Tim Brown wrote:
> 1) To the best of our knowledge OpenVAS is backwards compatible with Nessus
> 2,
> 3 and 4 feeds although legally use of the commercial feeds on anything other
> than Tenable's product is a grey area
Indeed, and because of that grey a
I am away from the office until Aug 4, 2009. If this is an emergency, please
contact Philip Young at pjyo...@dowco.com.
Thanks.
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On 02-08-2009 17:14, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña (02/08/2009):
>> I encourage people that are looking for an alternative to Nessus to switch to
>> OpenVAS (Open Vulnerability Assessment Scanner) which is a Nessus fork (ba
* Tim Brown (t...@nth-dimension.org.uk) wrote:
> I don't see what there is to gain by asking Javier to split his efforts in
> continuing to maintain Nessus when he has expressed a preference to allow
> OpenVAS to take its place and has made significant contributions to make that
> possible.
Whi
(Speaking as a Debian package maintainer, OpenVAS project initiator and
professional penetration tester.)
On Monday 03 August 2009 00:18:57 Simon Ward wrote:
> The last time I looked at OpenVAS, admittedly several months ago, it had
> nowhere near enough coverage in tests for remote vulnerabilit
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 08:03:06PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> I've recently requested Debian Ftp maintainers [1] to remove from the archive
> Nessus and all its related packages (nessus-core, nessus-libraries, libnasl
> and nessus-plugins). The main reason for this is that upstr
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña (02/08/2009):
> I encourage people that are looking for an alternative to Nessus to switch to
> OpenVAS (Open Vulnerability Assessment Scanner) which is a Nessus fork (based
> on the 2.2.x branch) that is actively being maintained and is now available
> in Debian.
I
Dear All,
I've recently requested Debian Ftp maintainers [1] to remove from the archive
Nessus and all its related packages (nessus-core, nessus-libraries, libnasl
and nessus-plugins). The main reason for this is that upstream is more
focused in maintaining it's non-free version of Nessus (labele
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