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| author | Foxfair Hu <foxfair@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-12-01 05:35:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Foxfair Hu <foxfair@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-12-01 05:35:29 +0000 |
| commit | ef5033c94b663a9123497e55749cc530ae4abc73 (patch) | |
| tree | d47e1a6c5ea37da4051985505e5077c4a0c34004 /security/nessus-libnasl/pkg-descr | |
| parent | b08bfa9ba01a5a0b8cbea9c4485edd70dfea3b6f (diff) | |
PR: 14775
Submitted by: Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no>
NASL is a scripting language designed for the Nessus security scanner. Its
aim is to allow anyone to write a test for a given security hole in a few
minutes, to allow people to share their tests without having to worry
about their operating system, and to garantee everyone that a NASL script
can not do anything nasty except performing a given security test against
a given target.
NASL is not a powerful scripting language. Its purpose is to make scripts
that are security tests. So, do not expect to write a third generation web
server in this language, nor a file conversion utility. Use perl, python
or whatever scripting language to do this.
WWW: http://www.nessus.org/doc/nasl.html
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=23523
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diff --git a/security/nessus-libnasl/pkg-descr b/security/nessus-libnasl/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2a37b48b4e1f --- /dev/null +++ b/security/nessus-libnasl/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +NASL is a scripting language designed for the Nessus security scanner. Its +aim is to allow anyone to write a test for a given security hole in a few +minutes, to allow people to share their tests without having to worry +about their operating system, and to garantee everyone that a NASL script +can not do anything nasty except performing a given security test against +a given target. Thus, NASL allows you to easily forge IP packets, or to +send regular packets. It provides you some convenient functions that will +make the test of web and ftp server more easy to write. NASL +garantees you that a NASL script : + + will not send any packet to a host other than the target host + will not execute any commands on your local system + +NASL is not a powerful scripting language. Its purpose is to make scripts +that are security tests. So, do not expect to write a third generation web +server in this language, nor a file conversion utility. Use perl, python +or whatever scripting language to do this. + +WWW: http://www.nessus.org/doc/nasl.html |