RE: Pen-Testing Windows from Solaris

From: Dieter Sarrazyn (dsr_at_ascure.com)
Date: 05/13/03

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    Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 18:33:54 +0200
    To: <Bojan.Zdrnja@LSS.hr>, "peter.king" <peter.king@ziplip.com>, <pen-test@securityfocus.com>
    

    Hi,

    My experience with installing nessus (and nmap) on solaris is that
    you'll have to compile almost everything from the source tarballs
    instead of installing the packages (from sunfreeware).

    I installed successfully nessus on Solaris 8.

    Greetz,
    Dieter

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Bojan Zdrnja [mailto:Bojan.Zdrnja@LSS.hr]
    > Sent: dinsdag 13 mei 2003 9:32
    > To: 'peter.king'; pen-test@securityfocus.com
    > Subject: RE: Pen-Testing Windows from Solaris
    >
    >
    > Among tools that other people suggested, you can install
    > Nessus on that machine and run tests on target machines.
    > You'll need nmap for that as well.
    >
    > Installation *can* be tricky, you can find some info on the
    > following URL (it's for Solaris 7, but you can find it useful):
    >
    > http://www.sunhelpdesk.com/users/john/nessus.htm
    >
    > Best regards,
    >
    > Bojan Zdrnja
    >
    > > -----Original Message-----
    > > From: peter.king [mailto:peter.king@ziplip.com]
    > > Sent: Tuesday, 13 May 2003 3:10 a.m.
    > > To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
    > > Cc: peter.king@ziplip.com
    > > Subject: Pen-Testing Windows from Solaris
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > > Hi
    > >
    > > I have recently been given the task of Pen-Testing several
    > > large Windows networks, running a variety of versions of windows.
    > >
    > > Unfortunatly the only platform I will have to conduct the
    > > tests will be a Sparc Solaris 2.6 box. I will have command
    > > line access only to this box.
    > >
    > > I envisage the main problems with the boxes to be poor
    > > passwords, open shares, IIS, and MS SQL.
    > >
    > > Given these limits what command line tools would people
    > > suggest as the best ones to use that will run under Solaris
    > > 2.6? I have my own ideas for several of them but would
    > > appreaciate any extra input.
    > >
    > > Cheers,
    > >
    > > Peter
    > >
    > > --------------------------------------------------------------
    > > -------------
    > > Did you know that you have VNC running on your network?
    > > Your hacker does.
    > > Plug your security holes.
    > > Download a free 15-day trial of VAM:
    > > http://www.securityfocus.com/StillSecure-pen-test
    > > --------------------------------------------------------------
    > > --------------
    > >
    > >
    >
    >
    > --------------------------------------------------------------
    > -------------
    > Did you know that you have VNC running on your network?
    > Your hacker does.
    > Plug your security holes.
    > Download a free 15-day trial of VAM:
    > http://www.securityfocus.com/StillSecure-pen-> test
    >
    >
    > --------------------------------------------------------------
    > --------------
    >
    >

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Did you know that you have VNC running on your network?
    Your hacker does.
    Plug your security holes.
    Download a free 15-day trial of VAM:
    http://www.securityfocus.com/StillSecure-pen-test
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