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Re: Minimum permissions for domain account

Subject: Re: Minimum permissions for domain account
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:25:55 +0100

On Oct 31, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Ng, Kenneth (US) wrote:

Hello, I see that Nessus has the ability to query various Windows
functions if it is provided authentication information.  I don't  
want to
use the domain administrator account for obvious security reasons.

which ones ??

you can add another account to the administrator group too.

If I
set up a dedicated domain account, what are the bare minimum  
permissions
I would need to give it to be able to use Nessus to gather things like
patch information?

Administrator account allows you to do file version check, wmi test,  
and other LSA restricted tests.

Given such permissions, what harm could still be
done if the id were compromised?

Same than with any other account ...



Nicolas
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