Re: Security Packages
Do you have any experience running SATAN ?? I as well as others in my
department are interested in running it, however I am wondering how
affective of a tool it is because others here have previously used a very
early version which was bug-gy.
Dennis
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Karl Sackett wrote:
> dpk writes:
> >
> > There is a program that probes a machine quite extensively for security
> > holes (from what I hear from trusted sources). It is called SATAN
> > (security analysis tool for auditing networks) Here is a few url's to get
> > you going...
> >
> > http://www.interaus.net/1995/6/satan.html
> > http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/f-20.shtml
> > http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9125110/satan.html
> >
> > I don't believe it is a debian package, someone feel free to prove me
> > wrong because I truly don't know.
>
> I have a Debianized SATAN on my to-do list, but in its present release
> it's next to unusable. I spent several weeks working with SATAN's
> developers and gave up. However, they are working on a SATAN 1.2 which
> should be Linux-friendly.
>
> --
> Karl Sackett krs@caos.aamu.edu
>
> "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form
> of tyranny over the mind of man." -- Thomas Jefferson
>
>
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