Hi, My experience with installing nessus (and nmap) on solaris is that you'll have to compile almost everything from the source tarballs instead of installing the packages (from sunfreeware). I installed successfully nessus on Solaris 8. Greetz, Dieter > -----Original Message----- > From: Bojan Zdrnja [mailto:Bojan.Zdrnjaat_private] > Sent: dinsdag 13 mei 2003 9:32 > To: 'peter.king'; pen-testat_private > Subject: RE: Pen-Testing Windows from Solaris > > > Among tools that other people suggested, you can install > Nessus on that machine and run tests on target machines. > You'll need nmap for that as well. > > Installation *can* be tricky, you can find some info on the > following URL (it's for Solaris 7, but you can find it useful): > > http://www.sunhelpdesk.com/users/john/nessus.htm > > Best regards, > > Bojan Zdrnja > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: peter.king [mailto:peter.kingat_private] > > Sent: Tuesday, 13 May 2003 3:10 a.m. > > To: pen-testat_private > > Cc: peter.kingat_private > > Subject: Pen-Testing Windows from Solaris > > > > > > > > > > Hi > > > > I have recently been given the task of Pen-Testing several > > large Windows networks, running a variety of versions of windows. > > > > Unfortunatly the only platform I will have to conduct the > > tests will be a Sparc Solaris 2.6 box. I will have command > > line access only to this box. > > > > I envisage the main problems with the boxes to be poor > > passwords, open shares, IIS, and MS SQL. > > > > Given these limits what command line tools would people > > suggest as the best ones to use that will run under Solaris > > 2.6? I have my own ideas for several of them but would > > appreaciate any extra input. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Peter > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------- > > Did you know that you have VNC running on your network? > > Your hacker does. > > Plug your security holes. > > Download a free 15-day trial of VAM: > > http://www.securityfocus.com/StillSecure-pen-test > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------- > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > Did you know that you have VNC running on your network? > Your hacker does. > Plug your security holes. > Download a free 15-day trial of VAM: > http://www.securityfocus.com/StillSecure-pen-> test > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did you know that you have VNC running on your network? Your hacker does. Plug your security holes. Download a free 15-day trial of VAM: http://www.securityfocus.com/StillSecure-pen-test ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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