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Re: Filter query

Subject: Re: Filter query
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 10:05:02 +0100
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Thanks for the info George, that will save me a lot of grief.

Cheers,
Steve


George A. Theall wrote:
On 05/11/07 10:09, Steven McIntosh wrote:

I thought that nessus would still try and use those plugins if they
were enabled but with null
values. Is this wrong and nessus won't even attempt to use the plugins
if no credentials are given?

A few plugins will try to login but won't succeed if you don't provide
credentials. Most, though, will either not be run or exit quickly,
depending on whether you've configured the scan to be optimized.

George

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Steven McIntosh
Information Systems Security Officer
Computing Service
James Watt North Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow
G12 8QQ
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