RE: Nessus to be removed from Debian, please switch to OpenVAS - possibly in Non-Free repositories?

2009-08-04 Thread Joseph Abbotts
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

Re: Nessus to be removed from Debian, please switch to OpenVAS - possibly in Non-Free repositories?

2009-08-04 Thread Gerardo Castillo Alvarado
You can try the backport repository from lenny [1] deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main [1] http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/i386/openvas-server/download Joseph Abbotts escribió: > I'm all for having more tools to help settle my healthy paranoia but I'm not > seei

Re: Nessus to be removed from Debian, please switch to OpenVAS - possibly in Non-Free repositories?

2009-08-04 Thread Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
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

RE: Nessus to be removed from Debian, please switch to OpenVAS - possibly in Non-Free repositories?

2009-08-04 Thread Joseph Abbotts
I'm all for having more tools to help settle my healthy paranoia but I'm not seeing the server package: Lenny:~/Workbench# aptitude update Lenny:~/Workbench# aptitude search openvas p libopenvas1 - OpenVAS shared libraries p libopenvas1-dev - OpenVAS static

Re: Re: Nessus to be removed from Debian, please switch to OpenVAS

2009-08-02 Thread Grant Kwok
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Re: Nessus to be removed from Debian, please switch to OpenVAS

2009-08-02 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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

Re: Nessus to be removed from Debian, please switch to OpenVAS

2009-08-02 Thread Simon Ward
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

Re: Nessus to be removed from Debian, please switch to OpenVAS

2009-08-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
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