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Re: run nessus as root?

Subject: Re: run nessus as root?
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:30:51 +0100
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 01:03:58PM -0600, McDermott, AS Amanda (5841) @ IS 
wrote:

Other than unnecessary stress on the machine, are there other
reasons I should not run Nessus as root? Are there times when
I should?  

Since nessusd (through many plugins) needs access to raw sockets,
bind low ports or sniff the traffic you have to run it under
root. (However, if your OS can grant chosen POSIX capabilities to
a process or a user/group, you can run nessusd under unprivilegged
user if it has CAP_NET_RAW, CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE, CAP_NET_BROADCAST
and CAP_NET_ADMIN (?) capabilities.)

Martin Mačok
ICT Security Consultant
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