Okay, I understand that the lesson is "do not try to secure the
application, secure the box" !!

Maybe a feature request in the future....

Anyhow, this is not what I wanted to hear, but I will have to live with it

Thanks !


On Thu, September 14, 2006 12:31 pm, Josh Zlatin said:
> On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Patrick Derwael wrote:
>
>> Josh,
>>
>> My understanding of the nessusd.rules is that this is used to limit the
>> hosts one can scan, not the connection between the NessusWX client and
>> the
>> nessusd daemon.
>> Am I right or wrong here ?
>
> You are correct. Nessus does not have any built in capability to limit
> who can connect to the daemon. You will need to use a third party
> application such as tcpwrappers, iptables etc.
>
> --
>   - Josh
>


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