Re: [Plugins-writers] local checks

From: MadHat (madhat@private)
Date: Mon Jun 20 2005 - 11:25:08 PDT


On Jun 20, 2005, at 12:38 PM, George A. Theall wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 10:39:33AM +0200,
> M.A.C.Dekker@private wrote:
>
>
>> Is it possible to run a local check for risky lines in say
>> the apache config http.config or the php config php.ini
>> files?  I seem to see only local scans on registry-values?
>>
>
> As others have pointed out, this is do-able under Windows.
>
> Under *nix, though, plugins can't run arbitrary commands by
> default unless they have been signed using the private key
> corresponding to the public key nessus_org.pem (in
> /usr/local/var/nessus by default). You can shoot yourself in
> the foot^H^H^H^H^Hget around this restriction if you insist
> by setting 'nasl_no_signature_check' in nessusd.conf and
> restarting the Nessus server. See Edgeos' Nessus Knowledge
> Base for more info on this:
>
>   http://www.edgeos.com/nessuskb/details.php?option_id=288

Is it possible to gen your own keys and sign your own nasl scripts?
I mean I know it would break the auto-update, but would allow you to  
do other things.

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