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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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