Re: Automatic Security Patching for Debian

From: Meritt James (meritt_james@bah.com)
Date: 08/19/02 

Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:59:43 -0400
From: "Meritt James" <meritt_james@bah.com>
To: Kristian Du <kristian_du@katamail.com>, security-basics@securityfocus.com

I personally would not want anything to scan my boxes for a
vulnerability than open up my box enough that the same thing that
scanned for vulnerabilities installed some (unidentified) software.

Maybe I am just cowardly. Anyone else that paranoid?

Jim

Kristian Du wrote:
>
> Hi There,
>
> Wouldn't it be nice to have a piece of software, such as apt-get
> combined with nessus, that port-scans your machine and retrieves from
> the net existing patches and installs them for you automatically?
>
> Maybe there is already one out there of which I am not aware of, or
> maybe there are other similar solutions to this... does anybody know?
>
> Wish everyone a good day,
>
> --
> Kristian 

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