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Re: [suse-security] nessus output
  • From: Peter Münster <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:19:09 +0200 (CET)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907301110240.27905-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Jean Luc Laborde wrote:

> Hello, i read all that mails about nessus, but i'm little newby : do you
> thinck running X-server under tty7 in run-level 3 is secure ? Then what is
> nessus exactly and what are MIT_COOKIES - i saw some allusions in xauth man
> but i don't know how to use it.


Hello Jean-Luc,
In runlevel 3 X is run by xdm (or kdm), I think this is secure, but I'm
not sure (I don't use it). Take a look at the message of Mark Lutz
<luma@xxxxxxxxxxx>, he could help probably more.

Nessus is a "security scanner", used for detecting (network-) security
holes of a system. See URL http://www.nessus.org/ !

Ciao, Peter


btw: accepting german, french, english


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