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Re: nessus closes source question
From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 20:50:41 -0500
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 5:25 PM, sara fink <> wrote:
I think Nmap is *already* capable of doing everything Nessus was doing six years ago (when Tenable was born) because of the flexibility Lua and NSE provide. All we need is people to keep writing useful scripts.I wish I knew. I am very new to scripting and nmap. Maybe some video examples of scripting will open the apetite. Is there a database of scripts? I never used it with nmap.-Jason --
Read all about it: http://nmap.org/book/nse.html If you have nmap installed on your system, look in the 'scripts' directory. On Windows, it is "C:\Program Files\Nmap\scripts" by default and on my Linux self-compiled install, it is "/usr/local/share/nmap/scripts" Each .nse file is a text-file script written in Lua (http://www.lua.org/about.html) with custom extensions. You can look at them in any text editor. Try vim for Linux and turn on syntax highlighting but force it to use Lua. For Windows I use UltraEdit; I've written my own syntax highlighting file for that one. Those should give you a decent idea of what Nmap can do so far. -Jason _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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- Re: nessus closes source question DePriest, Jason R. (Jul 02)
- Re: nessus closes source question sara fink (Jul 02)
- Re: nessus closes source question DePriest, Jason R. (Jul 02)
- Re: nessus closes source question Diman Todorov (Jul 03)
- Re: nessus closes source question DePriest, Jason R. (Jul 02)
- Re: nessus closes source question sara fink (Jul 02)