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| Subject: | Re: Root for local check |
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| Date: | Tue, 23 May 2006 20:43:33 -0400 |
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:13:25PM +0200, Bonleu, Julien wrote:
I am wondrering why a root account is needed to louch a local check.
It's not, as long as (1) you're only talking about basic patch audits and (2) the target systems aren't locked down so hard that non-root users can't query what's installed. George -- theall@tenablesecurity.com _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list Nessus@list.nessus.org http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
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