Net-Nessus-FastAttack version 0.01
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This module is designed to perform a quick nessus attack on a given host.
The target system for this is NetReg and self scan type CGI applications.

Nessus was chosen because (it is hoped) plugins can be chosen by our 
security group and implemented by us with no coding changes.

So far we've been testing this successfully for several weeks now.
It's been tested on Solaris running Apache/Apacah2 mod_perl with no problems.

Our topology consists of a single netreg system and 2 load balanced nessusd servers.
I'm running nessusd (Nessus) 2.0.9 for SunOS which talks NTP 1.2.

As many folks might know older protocol versions sent you all plugin and
preferences at login time.
This could take several minutes.
NTP 1.2 comes with (undocumented) <fast login>, this make cgi applications 
possible.


I'll attempt to address any problems or suggestions about this module.
You can contact me directly or via this list.

If I get enough feedback I'l post this to CPAN

jpb@brown.edu


INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

  blah blah blah

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Put the correct copyright and licence information here.

Copyright (C) 2003 by A. U. Thor

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.0 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.