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From: Udo Schweigert <udo.schweigert@siemens.com>
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Subject: maintainer-update of security/nessus
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>Number:         47708
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       maintainer-update of security/nessus
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          maintainer-update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jan 30 23:30:08 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:    Fri Jan 31 13:40:04 PST 2003
>Last-Modified:  Fri Jan 31 13:40:04 PST 2003
>Originator:     Udo Schweigert
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD alaska.cert.siemens.de 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #41: Fri Jan 24 15:08:12 CET 2003 ust@alaska.cert.siemens.de:/usr/obj/work/src/RELENG_4/sys/alaska i386


>Description:

Update the outdated pkg-descr as requested by the nessus developer.

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

diff -u /usr/ports/security/nessus/pkg-descr nessus/pkg-descr
--- /usr/ports/security/nessus/pkg-descr	Wed Dec  1 06:27:13 1999
+++ nessus/pkg-descr	Fri Jan 31 08:14:57 2003
@@ -1,15 +1,12 @@
-The 'Nessus' Project was started in early 1998, and first released in
-April 1998. At this time, the most complete free security scanner was
-SATAN, which is clearly outdated, and you could see the emergence of
-several commercial ones, that were clearly too expensive.
+Nessus is a security scanner that crawls across a network, looking
+for well-known vulnerabilities and common misconfiguration.
 
-The Nessus Security Scanner is not only another security auditing tool. It
-is a security auditing as I think it should be - never trust the version
-number, never trust that a given service is listenning on the good port
-(do all the web servers on earth listen on port 80 ?).
+It has a unique set of features, including automatic SSL discovery,
+services recognition (so it will catch, for instance, a FTP server
+running on a port different than 21) and its own scripting language.
 
-The Nessus Security Scanner is free, open-sourced and wants to be easy to
-use. 
+The Nessus Security Scanner is released under the GNU General Public
+Licence and aims to be easy to use while extremely powerful.
 
 WWW: http://www.nessus.org/
 

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: obraun 
State-Changed-When: Fri Jan 31 13:38:20 PST 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
Committed, thanks! 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=47708 
>Unformatted:
