Nessus 3 Question

Karl Hegbloom hegbloom at pdx.edu
Fri Dec 30 11:27:12 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 09:45 +0000, Simon Taplin wrote:
> I'm running Kubuntu AMD64 with Nessus 3. Nessus only be installed/run on 
> my i386 chroot.
> 
> Does anyone know if Nessus can use the nmap/nikto/etc that is part of 
> the AMD64 installation or do I need to install nmap/nikto in my i386 
> chroot?

Since nessus is running inside the chroot(), it cannot execve() any
binary that is not also visible from within the chroot, right?

(See: "man chroot", and "man execve")

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Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom at pdx.edu>





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