Thanks everyone. Just wondering one more thing. if Nessus doesn't support the
Linux system, does this mean that Nessus cannot perform any scan which
credentials are needed? What else is limited?
Thanks so much,
Kevin> > Message: 5> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:00:04 -1000> From: Kevin Chak
<kevinckc1628@hotmail.com>> Subject: Re: Checking credentials~> To:
<nessus@list.nessus.org>> Message-ID:
<BAY103-W13B2666C16C7342DB54134D6E60@phx.gbl>> Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"> > > Thanks, Yarick~> > I ran the command "cat
/etc/redhat-release" and here is what I got:> > [test1]$ cat
/etc/redhat-releaseRed Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)> Hope this helps,> >
Kevin> > > > > Message: 4> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:02:46 -1000> From: Kevin
Chak <kevinckc1628@hotmail.com>> Subject: RE: Nessus Digest, Vol 54, Issue 17>
To: <nessus@list.nessus.org>> Message-ID:
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charset="iso-8859-1"> > > In case you want to see the result. This is what I
get after I that "ls" command:> > ls: /etc/*version: No such file or
directory-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35 Sep 5 2002 /etc/redhat-release> Thanks,> >
Kevin> > Message: 2> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:56:21 -1000> From: Kevin Chak
<kevinckc1628@hotmail.com>> Subject: Re: Checking credentials~> To:
<nessus@list.nessus.org>> Message-ID:
<BAY103-W34220A0B519C5313204460D6E70@phx.gbl>> Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"> > > Thanks~I ran that command and there is a
'readhat-release' in /etc. Is this distro you don't support??> > Kevin> >
Message: 2> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:12:34 -0400> From: 'George A. Theall'
<theall@tenablesecurity.com>> Sub> ject: Re: Checking credentials~> To:
nessus@list.nessus.org> Message-ID:
<13E791C7-507B-4122-9CB7-55218C05D004@tenablesecurity.com>> Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes> > On Apr 17, 2008, at
3:26 AM, Kevin Chak wrote:> > > Sorry, how do I know what kind of Linux system
I'm logging in?> > There is probably a file in /etc describing the distro; it
will be > named something like 'redhat-release', 'debian_version', etc. So one
approach is to> ssh i> nto the host and run 'ls -al /etc/*{version,release}
2>/dev/ > null'. It's possible it's either a distro we don't support or someone
removed the file so we can't determine what it is.> > George> -- >
theall@tenablesecurity.com> > >
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wrote:> > > Thanks, Yarick~> >> > I ran the command "cat /etc/redhat-release"
and here is what I got:> >> > [test1]$ cat /etc/redhat-release> > Red Hat Linux
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