On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 01:03:58PM -0600, McDermott, AS Amanda (5841) @ IS 
wrote:

>    Other than unnecessary stress on the machine, are there other reasons
>    I should not run Nessus as root? Are there times when I should?

nessusd must be run as root to sniff network traffic, open raw sockets, 
and the like.

George
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