On Dec 23, 2005, at 11:32, Jerry Yeager wrote: > Satan: Improving the Security of Your Site by Breaking Into it > > Since you cannot get in, maybe you need to break in. > > SATAN is a tool to help systems administrators. It recognizes > several common networking-related security problems, and reports > the problems without actually exploiting them. > Maybe you will be able to use the tools to diagnose the problem. > Some of the tools plow right through "blockages". > > http://www.porcupine.org/satan/
OK, I fetched satan, read the instructions and then ran into problems: . The reconfigure script bombs unless it is called via 'perl reconfigure'. Otherwise it pukes when it sees --needs in the opening line of the program. . The instructions say to run the reconfigure script, but the reconfigure script gets as far as looking in /usr/bin for perl, and then sits and does nothing --- it isn't even in an endless loop, it just idles. . If I decide that I don't need to reconfigure, because I can't reconfigure, and I run make (fully expecting an error, because the reconfigure script failed, so most paths will be undefined), I get an error telling me that I need to say what OS I'm using. If I make the guess that the os is "freebsd", I get piles upon piles of errors saying that there are all sorts of incomplete pointers. If I try to google Satan along with Mac OS X or "compile satan" with Mac OS X, nothing of value pops up. Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20051224/b4a1bad8/attachment.bin
